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Whirlpool tries to cheat Maytag retirees out of their health benefits

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Fri, 08/08/2008 - 12:23pm — DCblogger

Another failure of employer-based health insurance

If you were negotiating an employment agreement, you might consider taking an outstanding benefits package in exchange for a lower starting salary or a wage freeze. How would you feel if many years later, in retirement, some of those benefits were taken away from you?

About 3,000 former Maytag workers and family members have received letters from Whirlpool this week informing them that they are about to get cheated.

The sad fact is that under our system there is an enormous incentive to cheat workers. Canadian companies don't have this problem.

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Stern statement by Obama...

By lambert on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 12:38pm

... at the link, re Maytag.

Unfortunately, since he isn't supporting the policy that would lead to the good outcomes he claims to seek, the statement is useless.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Yes support good-outcome policies Obama

By Truth Partisan on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 1:07pm

and give stern statements like that that you mean companies to take note of and you will have the support of many!

Thanks again DC for keeping us up on all of this!

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Typical of whirlpool i had a

By jasonla (not verified) on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 2:49pm

Typical of whirlpool i had a few of their appliances which broke i tried to get some oem whirlpool parts but when i told them i wasn't happy with their products and throwing them out for maytag the guy on the phone gave me the biggest attitude i wish i recorded it to put online.

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