#Happy #NewYear! No More #Healthcare

Jeff Bezos Will Ring in the New Year by Leaving These Employees Out in the Cold Sign Now Dear friends, How will you be celebrating the New Year? Nearly 2,000 part-time Whole Foods employees may not be celebrating at all. Come January 1st, these workers will be stripped of their healthcare benefits and left to fend for themselves. Tell Jeff Bezos to do the right thing — use his billions to help his employees, not his bottom line. Any employee who works less than full-time but at least 20 hours per week will now have to find their own healthcare. The extra cost is substantial: healthcare across the nation is staggeringly expensive, even for full-time workers with a middle-class salary. For a part-time employee making anything less, the cost could be crippling. The company now says they will help some of these employees transition into full-time jobs so they can qualify for continued benefits or help them find care in the private market, but this won't help everyone. One employee who had been with Whole Foods for 15 years explained that in order to work full-time hours, she would need to pay for daycare, which is sometimes even more expensive than healthcare. The high-end supermarket is owned by Amazon, which is, in turn, owned by Jeff Bezos, who is the second-wealthiest person on Earth. If he wanted to, he could easily afford to provide healthcare — after all, he is personally worth $112 billion dollars. His company earns billions of dollars a year, but when it comes to his employees, this billionaire is a penny-pincher. Tell Jeff Bezos this is unacceptable. His part-time employees depended on their company-provided healthcare. Snatching it away right after Christmas is something only a Grinch would do. Sign the petition and demand that Whole Foods continue to provide healthcare for their part-time employees. Thank you,   Lauren W. The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Whole Foods must not treat its employees so cruelly. Healthcare is a human right. Please sign the petition.