She ensures that the peanut soup and colonial game pie get served piping hot at the King's Arms Tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street. During the winter months, she has been working at the union office. Ms. Tyler says she knows what it means to need health-care insurance. Jaleesa is a diabetic who must take daily insulin injections. People insecure Increasingly, workers are balking when firms try to shift costs to boost their bottom line.
People seem insecure.
Those workers that had it pretty good are starting to see it chipping away. Indeed, Boeing has tried and failed twice to shift costs to workers. Five years before the engineers' strike, Boeing machinists launched a 69-day strike after the company tried to pass along some medical costs to them. After the most recent strike ended, Boeing announced that it would eliminate premium cost-sharing for all employees. We had so much rhetoric about the contributions, that frankly the cost of removing them and removing that irritant from the work site . . .