Adequate and affordable health care should be a fundamental right for employees at The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. Employees have given up raises and accepted unpaid furloughs, loss of pension benefits, and higher contributions for health care for years. Now we need assistance from the company to protect this basic right to a health care plan that covers employees and families, promotes healthy lifestyles, provides routine preventive care and assistance when employees need it most for illnesses. Without an infusion of funds to the Health and Welfare Fund, employees could have to pay a $2 million shortfall, and employees with families could pay up to $12,500 or more in annual deductions. Who could afford that? Not the members of Local 10 of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia. Support a reasonable contract for the Newspaper Guild of Philadelphia, Local 10, which represents the editorial, advertising, finance and circulation staffs for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. The company, owned by billionaire philanthropist Gerry Lenfest , wants to eliminate adequate health care and attack veteran journalists who have built its good reputation, giving $20 million in concessions in recent years. Employees had hoped the company would recognize eight consecutive years of no raises, unpaid furloughs, loss of pension benefits, and higher contributions for health care that helped keep the news organizations afloat. Instead, management is using those sacrifices as a precedent to exploit employees. Health insurance contributions have stagnated for 15 years. Under the current proposal, which could be in violation of the Affordable Health Care Act, the company would contribute $500,000 annually to a fund that would run out of money in less than a year. Employees would have to pay a $2 million shortfall, and employees with families could pay up to $12,500 or more in annual deductions.   Local 10 employees deserve better. Given Mr. Lenfest’s philanthropic generosity, would he want to condemn his own employees to conditions reminiscent of 19th Century sweatshops, at a time when the company has enjoyed three consecutive years of positive cash flow?   Please join us in telling Interstate General Media and Mr. Lenfest to fulfill their basic obligation of adequately funding the joint Health and Welfare account. The employees have given more than their share. Enough is enough.