Originally Posted by
captjns
If the mandatory retirement age is raised to age 65, each union has the right, by vote to keep the retirement age for their group to 60.
There is a financial consideration for those airlines that currently maintain defined benefit plans, by creating unfunded liabilities for those pilots who desire to work beyond 60.
The only way individual MECs will be able to "vote" to keep mandatory retirement at 60 is to maintain contractual language that allows pilots to take their retirement at 60 with no early retirement penalties.
Individual MECs cannot override FAA rule or U.S. Law.