San Diego newspaper ends 401(k) match, blames Obamacare

[Newsjock]

Source: San Diego Free Press

Employees of the UT-San Diego are the latest casualties in the sordid saga of the right wing’s assault on the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

UT Publisher Doug Manchester has made opposition and denigration of the President’s health insurance reform agenda a top priority since the day he bought the paper. His editorial pages have been (figuratively) screaming about the impending end of Western Civilization for months on end. The ACA’s primary pillar—the individual mandate—was actually a conservative counter-proposal to President Clinton’s attempt to implement universal health care nearly two decades ago.

Now employees of UT-San Diego have been told the company can no longer afford to provide a 3% match for 401K contributions because of the onerous burdens imposed by Obamacare. Naturally, they’re unhappy about this latest slap in the face.

... As Richard Barrera, Secretary-Treasurer of the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, put it:

Once again, Doug Manchester and the UT ownership are demonstrating a basic lack of respect and appreciation for the UT staff, readership, and the San Diego community. San Diegans read the UT in order to learn about what’s happening in our community, not to be force fed Manchester‘s ideology. And yet Manchester covers over the often fine work of his own staff with front page editorials that San Diegans rightfully discard to get to the real news.

Now, Manchester and his elitist ownership are discarding any type of retirement security for his hard working staff, in order to make a pointless political statement. There’s an old saying in the labor movement - the best organizer is a bad employer. We hope the workers at the UT stand up to mean-spirited ownership by organizing and fighting for basic retirement security. The San Diego community will stand with you if you do, just like we take the UT editorial page with us to the ballot box – to vote the opposite of whatever position Manchester takes.

Read more: http://sandiegofreepress.org/2014/01/ut-san-diego-shafts-its-employees-blames-obamacare/

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Worst Manchester has used all the paper for attacks

It's a joke.

I mean, not even good for bird cage liner anymore.

Circulation was on the way down when Copley owned it. A company out of LA righted that ship, now...they wish for Copley numbers.

I feel for the staff, but some of us doubt SD will have a paper of record in 20 years (unless Manchester sells, (rumors are afoot that he is looking to sell) and somebody changes the paper back into a paper from a propaganda platform.

[frylock]

2. he'll run this fishwrap into the ground..

his readers are dying off, just like fox viewers.