Originally Posted by
RMFedex
I hear a lot of talk about waiting for section 6 to negotiate anything for retirement. I understand that some might think that changing the retirement could be used as leverage. I also fear that a more concessionary retirement could get voted in during section 6 if enough "improvements" in other areas are thrown in to appease 50.00001%.
Discussing retirement outside section 6 allows this very big issue to be evaluated solely on it's own merits.
At this point we don't have enough to say yes or no because we have no specifics. I would reserve judgment until we have specifics.
I think the problem here, is that any "savings" the company gets out of this deal, MUST be put back into our contract somewhere else, pay rates, reduced health care costs to us, etc. The cost of our current A plan is part of our "slice of the pie" that we have negotiated long and hard for over the years. We darn well not even think about giving back any of that pie. That's the issue with negotiating only this section...