A Negotiating Committee member quite familiar with the plethora of retirement schemes being considered stated clearly and emphatically on the most recent (virtual) Pub Call that "Nothing is off the table." When I challenged him on that statement in person, hoping for a clarification, he would not even disavow the possibility of the PSPP in our future.

If you think you knew exactly what the Negotiating Committee passed to The Company as our initial Retirement Proposal, you must have been in a very tiny minority of the MEC.

My suspicions about the MEC having NOT met nor been briefed between the Sep 1 final meeting with The Company and the Negotiator's Notepad: Update 19 two days later has been confirmed. The MEC was informed only by the update (and the decision -- by some entity other than the MEC -- to extend negotiations by scheduling more weeks of meetings) just the same as you and me. The "we" in "we have agreed ..." was not the MEC.






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