Obamacare Could Prompt 10,000 Las Vegas Union Workers To Strike

Unions were instrumental in getting Barack Obama elected, but now many members are squawking about his prized Obamacare because it isn't turning out to be quite what they expected.

One of those unions (that was probably pushing hard for its membership to vote for Obama - both times)  represents Las Vegas workers, and about 10,000 of those unhappy campers are poised to strike because they want to keep the benefits they have, including no-cost health coverage, and that 'aint gonna happen under Obamacare.

The Culinary Union Local 226 - representing a slew of Las Vegas workers including maids, porters, cooks etc. -  has curtailed negotiations with management and ended a contract extension because they don't want to pay a penny for their health insurance, and don't want any changes to their pension and guaranteed 40 work hours per week.  Obamacare would change all that.

According to BuzzFeed, union honcho Donald "D" Taylor said:

“The biggest hurdle to reaching settlements in Vegas is the new costs imposed on our health plan by Obamacare," “Even though the president and Congress promised we could keep our health plan, the reality is, unless the law is fixed, that won’t be true.”

Oops.  Fools for believing the oh-so obvious lies.

BuzzFeed explains the reason unions are balking:

Union leaders have long voiced concern over the health care law’s effect on their Taft-Hartley plans, which are collectively bargained plans maintained by multiple employers and a labor union. Under the Affordable Care Act, Taft-Hartley plan recipients (like the members of CU 226) are not eligible for tax subsidies. That makes some union employees more expensive for employers who provide health care, making employers less agreeable when it comes time to foot the bill.

Taylor is so pissed about the situation he actually approached a Republican: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The Washington Post quoted Taylor as saying:

“You can’t just order people to do stuff." “If their health plan gets wrecked, why would they then go campaign for the folks responsible for wrecking their health care?”

The CU Local 226 has made some leeway with MGM Resorts, Caesars and Tropicana, all of which have said members will continue to receive free health insurance. But others are still pending.

More info on Buzzfeed.

More on how union members will be hurt.

Granted, there are some happy campers who have benefited from the ACA, but many more people haven't, and this straight from the lips of  Democrat friends who voted for Obama.

Saudi Sergeant Rapes 13 Year-Old Boy In Vegas

Mazen Alotaibi, a Saudi Air Force sergeant stationed in the US (although no-one seems to know definitively why), took a little trip to sin city for New Year's eve. I guess the 23-year-old, after living in the repressive Kingdom where most everything is forbidden, decided to indulge in some massive alcohol consumption. Hennessy, apparently. Staying at the Circus Circus hotel in Las Vegas, Alotaibi admittedly got stinking drunk. That's when the Saudi spied a young 13-year-old boy that took his fancy. So he grabbed the kid, dragged him into his room and sexually assaulted him.

The police arrived on the scene sometime before 9:30 a.m. on New Year's eve day after the young kid reported the rape. Denying it at first, Alotaibi eventually confessed telling the police he was drunk and forced himself on the boy after the kid refused to service him for money.

The report stated that the 23-year-old Saudi national told investigators that he had the boy perform oral sex on him 'for just a couple of seconds,' and then 'accidentally' raped him.

‘There was a kidnapping and sexual assault with force,’ Las Vegas police Lt. Dan McGrath said. ‘The victim said he was forced into the room and sexually assaulted. We have a strong case based on the evidence.'

The boy, who lives out of state, was staying at the hotel with his family, McGrath said. He was taken to a hospital for medical treatment and evidence collection and released later to family members.

How do you "accidentally" rape someone?

Oh, and there were three other males in the room smoking pot.

According to McGrath, Alotaibi claims he was stationed at Joint Base San Antonio/Lackland, but spokesman Brent Boller says he's stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi at Keesler Air Force Base. Boller wasn't sure if Alotaibi had ever been at Lackland, though foreign military often are assigned to Lackland to improve their English at the Defense Language Institute.

And it seems Alotaibi might be a rich kid- or the Saudi Arabian government takes good care of its citizens, even the perverts- because he quickly hired a California lawyer. Attorney Don Chairez said Alotaibi will plead not guilty.

And besides the kidnapping, raping a minor, and "felony coercion" charges, he's also facing a charge of:

... burglary, which in Nevada can stem from a person entering a building with intent to commit a felony.

He could face a nice long jail term, if he doesn't get shipped home. If he was home he'd face a flogging or death for being a homosexual. And though pederasty is commonplace in places like Afghanistan, these men don't consider themselves gay. So he'd probably get off scott free.

No bail for the miscreant here.

Source: Daily Mail