Originally Posted by 742Dash

The Teamster's Central States Pension Fund is in trouble, of that there is no doubt. It is also a bit of a special case, and there are many other Teamster plans -- most of which are on solid ground. Union plans by nature have the advantage of not having company CFOs drooling over them. And thus I offer the argument that the problem with the loss of pilot pension plans was not that they were defined benefit plans, but that ALPA did not pull them into the union when deregulation came to pass.