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MADISON (WKOW) — WEA Trust and Health Tradition plan will no longer offer services in Wisconsin by the end of 2022.

But clearly not to their everyday practice. >> so now, unions are limited to bargaining only over their salary, is that right? >> thats correct. so whats happened and we get into this in the report is the union has whats called wea trust, its pet health insurance company and what would happen is they would bargain that at the collective bargaining table in the contract process and then funds would be utilized by the union in order to do the bargaining process in those sorts of things. now, what ...

Join together to bargain in order to ask for less. you join together to bargain, you collectively bargain to ask for more. collective bargaining is a huge cost driver. in addition to the 5.8% pension contribution and 12.6% health care contribution, we need that k piece to make our fiscal puzzle work. >> greta: he said hes going to collective bargain as to salary. are there other aspects which drive the costs up? >> absolutely. for example, through collective bargaining, there are a lot of teache...

Join together to bargain in order to ask for less. you join together to bargain, you collectively bargain to ask for more. collective bargaining is a huge cost driver. in addition to the 5.8% pension contribution and 12.6% health care contribution, we need that k piece to make our fiscal puzzle work. >> greta: he said hes going to collective bargain as to salary. are there other aspects which drive the costs up? >> absolutely. for example, through collective bargaining, there are a lot of teache...