Franken Receives Response on Multi-Employer Health Care Plans

Senator Al Franken has been working incredibly hard to bring our concerns to Washington D.C., pushing the Administration to understand the importance of collectively bargained multi-employer plans.  

On behalf of union members, he asked the Administration to acknowledge that employers will still have to honor their contractual obligations regarding the multi-employer or "Taft-Hartley plans" that  union workers went to the bargaining table and negotiated for. 

Senator Franken recently received a written response from the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Perez.  The letter reads, in part, “The Affordable Care Act, does not, as a matter of law, alter the contractual legal obligations employers have made in collectively bargaining to contribute to a Taft Hartley plan.” 

Senator Franken will continue fighting to protect the working families who depend on Taft-Hartley plans for affordable, continuous health insurance.