Some members feel 'betrayed' by changes to benefits in 2021 driven by 'skyrocketing' costs.
An unofficial Zoom meeting hosted by the SAG-AFTRA opposition faction Aug. 14 drew nearly 500 participants in a visceral display of fear and fury as dozens spoke out against a restructuring of the union’s affiliated health plan that will hike premiums and tighten eligibility. The words used by many: “betrayed,” “heartbroken” and “lawsuit.”
In a summary, the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan notes the moves are driven by “skyrocketing health care costs” exacerbated by the pandemic and a drop in employers’ funding of the plan resulting from production shutdowns . That went unsaid at the Zoom session, where some demanded Carteris be impeached and national executive director David White, also a plan trustee, be removed. Others, including meeting organizers Shaan Sharma — a self-described independent who runs on the union’s opposition Membership First party slate — and MF leader David Jolliffe, are looking to next summer’s union elections to oust Carteris and the Unite for Strength party slate and its allies that control the national board.
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