The fact that the B-plan is a "recent" addition here hammers home my focus on the A-plan.

It is a negotiated benefit. It is deferred compensation. We gave up something - higher pay rates - for an A-plan.

To let that hard-fought, negotiated benefit die on the vine is an insult.

When the company tells the NC "Sorry, increasing the multiplier is too expensive" my thought is "Of course they would say that".

My next thought is "Of course we would say no to such a blatant degradation of one our hardest-fought benefits".