your health insurance. Your spouse's health insurance. And your child's health insurance

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i've read this over and over and I have no idea what it means. The reason I have no idea what it means, is AAL doesn't want me to know what it means. Everyone opposed is focusing on HBT, promptly, or the integration of int'l/Dom. I view the medical excise tax as the big issue.

It's my view THIS is what AAL really wants. They see THIS change as a means to eventually get out of providing medical benefits to pilots. This is a long term plan to ELIMINATE pilot ,erican plans. They've successfully eliminated retiree medical, now employee medical is next.
It's so important they're willing to throw a lot of cash on the street in the hope we won't notice our wallets are being lifted.

Like the "bird droppings" robbery technique in South America...which I admit I fell for once...HBT, and the other issues are the bird droppings. While Kirby and Parker are wiping the "bird droppings" from our shirts, Jerry Glass will be picking our medical plan out of our pocket. Of course we won't notice the pan is gone until we gat back to the hotel.

In the event the Company determines the Standard or Core design options provided for in this Agreement(each and "Option") would be or become subject to an excise tax or other penalty included in The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or any excise tax or penalty which may replace the PPACA, under applicable law, (and thus become an "Affected Option"), the Company will meet and confer in good faith in order to reach an agreement with the Union concerning the minimum modification or modifications to the Affected Option necessary to avoid application of the excise tax or other penalty. The Company shall provide to the Union information the Union reasonably requests, including actuarial reports, necessary for the Union's design and consideration of such modifications. Unless otherwise agreed, an agreed modification shall become effective at the time the excise tax or penalty would become applicable in respect of the Affected Option (the "Affected Option Date").

If the Company and the Union are unable to agree on modifications necessary to avoid the application of the excise tax or other penalty on the Affected Option within ninety (90) days after the initial meeting, the parties will select Arbitrator Bloch who will determine the modifications to the design of the Affected Option that will become applicable. The authority of Arbitrator Bloch is expressly limited to establishing those modifications to the design of the Affected Option that will ensure no excise tax or other penalty will apply. If Arbitrator Bloch determines no reasonably practical modification to the Affected Option can guarantee no excise tax or other penalty will apply, the Company shall have the right to terminate the availability of the Affected Option to the Pilots. If, under the preceding sentence, the Company has terminated or would have the right to terminate the availability to the Pilots of the Standard and/or Core Option, the arbitrator will be empowered to designate an alternative Option design (a "New Option") that is available from the Company provider and that replicates the provisions of the Core Option to the greatest possible extent without causing the New Option to become subject to any excise tax or other penalty. In the event the arbitrator has not issued a determination prior to the excise tax or penalty becoming due or if such penalty or excise tax is otherwise owed for any reason, notwithstanding any contrary revision of law, the Company shall be permitted to implement such modifications to the design of the Affected Option as it considers to be necessary to avoid the excise tax or penalty. The Company shall have a reasonable period of time following the issuance of the arbitrator's determination to implement the New Option. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this Paragraph shall not be effective if, after the effective date of this Agreement, the Company enters into any new or amended collective bargaining agreement having a term of three (3) years or more with any union group that does not contain a provision substantially similar to this Paragraph.

If any Option is modified or eliminated pursuant to this Paragraph, the parties will meet and confer to determine how the savings, if any, from such modifications will accrue to Pilots. The avoidance of any excise tax that would have otherwise been applied will not be considered in the calculation of any savings. If the parties cannot agree on whether cost savings exist or how to distribute said savings, the matter may be referred to an arbitrator as specified by the process in this Paragraph. The arbitrator's authority shall be limited to the issue of determining whether such savings exist and, if so, how such savings are to be distributed. The arbitrator shall have no other authority, and in no event shall the arbitrator order modifications to or reinstitution's of a plan.