WEA Trust Officials Should go to prison for this shit!

OK, everyone, we have a class project. If you caught Belling in the 3:30-4:00 hour today (9/29 for podcast), he was absolutely in his filleting of WEAC, and more specifically, their fraudulent insurance arm, WEA Trust. He used the below article to stress how WEAC has perpetrated a fraud on Wisconsin taxpayers for the past 50 or so years, and it's now time to make them pay. They theoretically have stolen billions of $$$ from the very people whose children and grandchildren are taught by their dues paying members.

So I think it's time we contact our legislators and ask them for a full-frontal investigation of WEA Trust; their contributions, their leadership, their connections to the DNC, all of it. I will be contacting Senators Lazich, Grothman, and Darling, as well as Assemblymen Craig and Vos to see what they might be able to do. If they hear from a few of us, perhaps it will help.

Read below, if you dare...



Oshkosh school board OKs new insurance provider, saving $3.7 million

Sep. 28, 2011

Written by
Adam Rodewald
of the Northwestern

The school board Wednesday approved switching health insurance providers for Oshkosh school district employees, saving the system more than $3.7 million over the next three years.

The board unanimously approved switching from the Wisconsin Education Association Trust, a non-profit company started by the state teachers’ union, to the Wisconsin County’s Association Group Health Trust. Coinsurance, Deductibles and prescription co-pays will remain the same.


The change will save $773,607 immediately this school year. The district also estimates health insurance under WCA Group Health Trust will cost $1.3 million less in 2012-13 and $1.7 million less in 2013-14 than if the district stayed with WEA Trust.


The school board also voted, 6-1, to allow Superintendent Don Viegut to opt out of the new plan. Instead, they will put a portion of the money otherwise spent on premium costs into a health reimbursement account for Viegut. The arrangement will save the district $1,100 this year and $2,200 in each subsequent year.


Viegut will get $6,900 in his account for the remainder of this school year. He will get $14,900 in 2012-13 and nearly $17,000 in 2013-14.


Board member Ben Schneider II cast the lone no vote on the arrangement. He said the option should be presented to all employees.


“The complicating factor for me is other staff members that might want to do the same thing,” he said. “If we don’t allow that, it might drive a wedge on their morale.”


Board member Matt Wiedenhoeft said the district does plan on exploring the possibility of opening up this benefit to all staff.


The issue was previously discussed during a closed-door meeting to discuss the performance evaluation and compensation of the superintendent, board members said.


Oshkosh Education Association President Mark Boushele did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the health insurance changes.


The district requested proposals from providers in July after its labor unions gave the board full control over health insurance as part of a one-year collective bargaining agreement.


Local unions had staunchly refused to leave WEA Trust until a new law prohibited them bargaining over anything but wages. A committee of about 30 people – including rank-and-file employees, union representatives and retirees - reviewed the offers before administration made its formal recommendation to drop WEA Trust.


WCA Group Health Trust offered the best benefits and the lowest price, Business Director Bob Tess said.
Adam Rodewald: (920) 426-6632 or arodewal@thenorthwestern.com