Thats quite the extrapolation. Socialism? Trying to compare anything and everything in a PWA to top down national or global absolute authority government is an interesting exercise but well beyond the scope of this topic.

I’m also not “attacking your state” for this. I don’t know what state it even is nor do I care other than insofar as this narrow topic goes, I assume it’s a state that has decreed that you get superior monetary value from an equally negotiated benefit for us all.

While I do personally favor lower taxes, I have nothing against localities or states that want sky high taxes. It doesn’t bother me one bit if your state passes a 100% income tax rate with no deductions to fund all your hopes and dreams. You do you. If your state wants to tax to fund generous family care programs I wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it.

But that’s not what THIS is.

A state decreeing that your 240-270 annual sick hours can be used for that is a cost item that we ALL carry at contract time that you get to use MUCH differently than the rest of us. I’m also not saying I want your benefit to be eliminated. All I AM saying is that every domicile should be able to use our EQUALLY NEGOTIATED CBA/PWA benefits…EQUALLY.

Why would you possibly be against that?

Also, doesn’t UAL have some kind of provision to dress that? While compelling if true, even if it’s not, we should put that in C25. Why would you possibly take issue with that?

Your state’s taxes have nothing to do with that because that benefit is not being funded from those taxes, it’s merely an edict that ALPA negotiated benefits apply more to you than to others.

Why would you possibly be against what I’m advocating for?