Medical Center

     About our "Health and Wellness Center," we do not believe that is appropriate for any of our medical information to be kept on our employer’s property.  It is irrelevant how much money Harrah's saves on our benefits. We would like to choose our own doctors and treatments, thank you very much.

Irrelevant how much money Harrah's saves?  Saves versus what?

Saves versus this:

     Harrah's provides excellent medical insurance for members of Culinary Local 226 in Las Vegas.  $0 comes out of their paychecks for insurance. 

     Many Culinary Local 226 Union members have a $0 co-pay for visits to THEIR OWN doctors, not just those that the company selects. 

     If Union workers in Las Vegas got their insurance as some form of "horse trade," what have they given up?  Was it wages?  Mr. President could likely obtain a copy of the Culinary Local 226 Contract through Harrah's corporate offices and poke fun at it in the same way that he did this page.  

     He could poke fun at Union Cocktail Waitresses who make $11 per hour and receive guaranteed annual raises, and how that is worse than Harrah's paying our non-Union Waitresses minimum wage.  He could also make fun of the fact that they have a legal say over nearly every aspect of their jobs, including uniforms.

     He could elaborate on his bias against Unions which do such things as these for their membership.  He could DEBATE Joe Carbon and Steve Roberts if he truly wants us to be informed,  but he won't.