AGAIN
Do you guys not read or what?
Most of us (retirees) are NOT asking for better benefits, only equal.
And yes the railroads and maritime industries are the precedent.
Guess what, that’d be the transportation industries, the same RLA industries most of our rules and contracts are based on.
All most of us are asking for is 1 (one) group where you line up by seniority.
The previous ual did have a group up front of 25+ retirees but most of them didn’t even want it.
It was shoved down our throat only because management wanted to pay themselves lip service.
Last but NOT least and here is the part you have to understand:
If everyone (both active and retired) is boarding by seniority (which they would have had anyway) then you can see it was of no real value in the first place. It was only a smoke screen so they could say there was some kind of reward for putting in that kind of time.
THERE SHOULD BE NO GROUPS

Note: I know there is a distinction between seniority and time in service but either would work and that’s a different subject; one discussion at a time.