The East Coast (ILA) have come to terms that are an absolute win for the employers as automation is pushed in to replace them by global shipping liner management companies who’ve made record profits while trying to make more by replacing the workforce.  

Now, @realDonaldTrump @JDVance , the west coast ILWU desperately needs your help. The east coast fights with iron gloves while the west coast watches.  

Many aren’t aware of this but the west coast union members health and wellness benefits have become the worst form of an HMO while pretending to function as a “The Best PPO plan in existence” . It’s so bad that the doctors, from ortho, to chiro, to PT, to pain management to even MRI imaging facilities have stopped accepting the ILWU benefits because of new multiple 3rd parties that deem everything a failure in justifying medical necessity, including the initial evaluation with extremely vague reasoning that pins members against their doctors: “submitted notes are insufficient to justify medical necessity”. They do not recognize chronic pain as a reason to seek care and only have an interest in “new injuries”.

Going now on year 3, members have stopped seeking care and have turned to pharmaceuticals to hide their pain while operating heavy machinery on the docks. 

This issue doesn’t just impact the union, its collateral damage destroys the small yet proud local economy that served these union members.  

No one has stepped up to show concern or care to restore what’s been taken, because this has been buried.  They need help and continue to be too prideful to ask. Every member will tell you what the union leadership won’t. Ask an ILWU member if they’re happy with their health benefits and if they are the same benefits that they were told they had when the memo came down stating “they had agreed on maintaining the existing m health benefit”… you’ll get the unfortunate truth.  

Let’s fix this, now.  My DM’s are open if more information is requesting to be sought.  
@elonmusk