3 Years ago at my welcome to the Union "meet and greet" in Germantown, DW (With BC in attendance) said his goal was to see a small decrease of the A fund, and a substantial increase (He said 2-5 percent) in the B fund in each negotiated contract so that the A fund was eventual reduced to federal pension limits. That was to start in the last contract that obviously was not done. He said this way those close to retiring would not lose out on the A fund they were counting on except for a small percentage, but those of us new guys could eventually count on a very good B fund with a smaller A fund. This sounded good to me after seeing some of our other pilot brethren lose their A funds.

My guess is his older buds didn't want to give up a cent of that A fund in the last contract to substantially help out the younger guys, and hence it was all but rhetoric to please the newbies to the Union. Now it all makes sense after this retro age 60 return to "their" seats debacle. Why in the world would the older guys help out the younger guys? It is very clear the older guys have little intent to help out the young. That stupid A fund will always stay with current leadership, and I doubt if we ever see a "substantial" increase in our B fund. I sure hope to be proved wrong!