What if your employer told you that in order to keep your health coverage you and your spouse must submit to invasive health screenings from your insurer?
If you refused, you'd lose the health coverage you've always counted on. Oh, and the company is self-insured but they promise they won't use your private health information to decide whether to keep your coverage, hire you, fire you, or make your spouse go on a diet.
Unbelievable, but that's what my employer wants to force us to do! That's one of the reasons why more than 700 of us are on strike.
Tell our employer, Bemis Manufacturing company, that workers aren't lab rats.
My coworkers and I work in Terre Haute, Indiana. We make the flexible food packaging you see on your grocery store's shelves. Our company has been union for 52 years and is successful, with profits up more than 16 percent.
We did not make the decision to strike lightly. In an effort to avoid a strike we made an alternative offer to work without a contract while the bargaining continued but Bemis refused and actually lowered its offer. They even cut off insurance benefits which we had already paid for and demanded we accept low wage temp workers turning good jobs into McJobs.
Will you take a stand with us?
Tell Bemis to negotiate in good faith and respect its workers.








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