Originally Posted by TonyC

It also tells us volumes about the character of our employer and how they'll screw us without blinking. 46 years of precedent (paying vacation, etc., on January 1st and giving the pilot tax advantages) means nothing to The Company when they find a way to save money on our backs.

But let's be friends.


I'm ready to do whatever it takes to restore our A Plan to what we, that is The Company and The Association, agreed to 20 years ago. FIFTY percent income replacement ratio is what it constituted then, and that's what it should be now, and that's what it should be in the future.

It is CRYSTAL CLEAR that The Company is not an honest broker in this relationship, and it's high time OUR representative in the relationship, the entity to which we pay dues and to which we elect Block Reps, The Association acting as our Collective Bargaining Agent, stopped trying to exchange kisses with The Company and started acting like a Union. Stop wasting money on inventing a faux-retirement plan, a defined contribution plan dressed up to look like and replace a defined benefit plan, and START BUILDING A WAR CHEST.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

Print the bag tags and lanyards, and pull the permits for informational pickets. Schedule the Sunday afternoon rallies. When we try to play nice, we get played the fool, and I'm sick and tired of being played the fool.





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