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For seniors who have no employer-provided health care, it's sign-up time again. Many of the newer retirees at UAW Local 848 in Grand Prairie, Texas, had their company-provided health care cut off in their last union contract. They have until January 1st to apply the union-negotiated insurance stipend for Medicare Advantage or Medicare Supplement insurance. Union experts devoted themselves to finding the best alternatives for the retirees, and they started signing up at the union hall in October.
Retiree Danny Green talked to an insurance representative
at the union hall on December 13.
At their December 13 monthly luncheon, retirees talked about ways that they can get active in fighting for their own rights. Some of them volunteered to go to Texas State District 97, where a special election is scheduled for December 18, to help turn out the union family vote. Others are helping with phone banking.
UAW 848 retirees also took a special interest in helping their brothers and sisters from UAW local 119, where a strike has kept the workers away from their paychecks for two months. The honored guests at the luncheon were strikers. Retiree Mabel Jones took it on herself to start a project to help the strikers raise funds to buy Christmas toys for their children. She handed her collection tray to UAW 119 President Jimmy Greene with nearly $300 in cash!
Jimmy Greene and Mabel Casey
Anybody who would like to help buy Christmas toys for the strikers can donate through the business of one of the strikers' wives: www.serenitymortgage.net
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