Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the National Education Association (NEA), the Nation’s largest Union, is lobbying lawmakers against big looming cuts in Federal education aid - and a massive health insurance premium hike that would hit more than 21 million people directly, but many more who have any form of health insurance on January 1st. The objective: To counter the Anti-Worker, Anti-Public School tilt of the House’s ruling Republicans and the Right-Wing Republican Trump regime. Their other objective: To get the Government fully open and functioning again, while reversing a massive GOP-enacted health care spending cut, says NEA Deputy Legislative Director Kimberly Johnson Trinca. The Union calculates health insurance premiums would double for 90% of the 24 million people who get their coverage through the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare exchanges - and it will drive up the costs for people on almost any other form of insurance too. The deathly duo of Trump and the House GOP also wants to cut Federal aid to Public Schools, particularly to help students from low-income and Working Families, as well as Students of Color. They also plan to eliminate teacher training grants and they already enacted a massive increase in Federal taxpayer-paid “voucher” aid to parents of students in private schools - which can and do discriminate. 

To Continue Reading This Labor News Story, Go To: NEA teachers lobby against massive health care premium hikes – People's World

Photo Courtesy Of The NEA's Facebook Page.