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Article: State employees protest changes to PEIA: ; Union leaders say proposal would raise premiums by 4 percent
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Several dozen West Virginia employees complained Monday night
that government leaders are abandoning them by raising their health
insurance premiums and cutting benefits.
In a sometimes combative Public Employees Insurance Agency
hearing at the Charleston Civic Center, union leaders and state
workers said state officials and the Manchin administration have not
fully explored other options to deal with rising medical costs and
are picking state employees' pockets.
At one point a woman told PEIA director Ted Cheatham, "You are a
cold, heartless man."
Union leaders also interrupted Cheatham when he spoke at the
beginning of the hearing. As someone stood up to speak at the
microphone for ...