Originally Posted by
busdriver12
You think 1999 is bad, try retiree health care reimbursement based upon 1993 rates. You want to retire before age 65 or have those senior people move out of your seat? Good luck when they have to pay most of the ever increasing health care costs.
There are some major issues that seem like the negotiating committee has just given up on. For decades.
That issue was addressed, and fixed, in the 2006 CBA, but only for the age/seniority band of pilots who were expected to reach the regulated age (60) before the next CBA would be negotiated. A VEBA for those pilots provided money to offset the higher costs of health care insurance, thus removing that obstacle to retirement at age 60.
The fact that the "next band" of pilots was not provided access to a way to face that obstacle in the 2011 CBA is one of the major reasons I opposed it. We left those pilots behind, along with every pilot who has retired since then, and now we have the Negotiating Committee and members of the MEC scratching their heads wondering why more pilots don't retire at age 60.
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