Originally Posted by
HooverPilot
I hear what you are saying, but the union will be sued in a New York minute if they give up anything for the benefit of someone who is retired. They would lose too.
A union has a fiduciary duty to negotiate for all current members. A union cannot negotiate for a retired former member, at the expense of current members. No negotiating capital can be expended on non-members. It seems the only way would be to provide a retro payment for those who have retired during the amendable period.
This is factually incorrect.
FX ALPA has historically negotiated retro pay for members who have retired or resigned, though for some reason we decided to reward the company even more this round by not asking for retro for those who have resigned.
UA ALPA, DL ALPA, SWAPA, and many other airline unions do the same for their retirees and even those fired/resigned/etc and their retro payments are pensionable too.