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Has IBT/CS been a wise steward of our pension?
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<blockquote data-quote="ezrider" data-source="post: 52874"><p>Wkmac I don't think it's quite that simple. The driver that just happens to be in a "healthy" fund wouldn't have it to begin with if there hadn't been drivers wearing the same uniform all across the country working day in and day out to keep the business going in order to provide the money to put towards any plan to start with. The guy wearing the same uniform as you and I is supposed to be on the same team. How long do you think half of the guys on the team that face the crummy future of Central States and it's ugly sisters are going to keep sacrificing for the company that can't guarantee that one guy doing the same job in one state will get a reasonable retirement like the guy in another state? If the disparity between the have and the have-nots starts growing bigger and enough drivers stuck in the failing plans get fed up having to work 10 years longer than a guy doing the same job with the same company one state away they aren't going to strive to make the difference for the customers any longer. The have-nots will deem it as an unnecessary "sacrifice" since thier odds having a retirement are so much less than others on the "team".</p><p></p><p>If that happens, it aint gonna matter in 10 years who was lucky enough not to fall into CS or not because there won't be any customers willing to waste thier money on the 50-50 odds that service will be given. The company knows it and I bet they feared that scenario back in '97. BROTHERHOOD? What a joke. If that's the kind of "I got mine and the hell with anybody else" attitude my dues money is going for, then it's WAY PAST TIME to even the playing field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ezrider, post: 52874"] Wkmac I don't think it's quite that simple. The driver that just happens to be in a "healthy" fund wouldn't have it to begin with if there hadn't been drivers wearing the same uniform all across the country working day in and day out to keep the business going in order to provide the money to put towards any plan to start with. The guy wearing the same uniform as you and I is supposed to be on the same team. How long do you think half of the guys on the team that face the crummy future of Central States and it's ugly sisters are going to keep sacrificing for the company that can't guarantee that one guy doing the same job in one state will get a reasonable retirement like the guy in another state? If the disparity between the have and the have-nots starts growing bigger and enough drivers stuck in the failing plans get fed up having to work 10 years longer than a guy doing the same job with the same company one state away they aren't going to strive to make the difference for the customers any longer. The have-nots will deem it as an unnecessary "sacrifice" since thier odds having a retirement are so much less than others on the "team". If that happens, it aint gonna matter in 10 years who was lucky enough not to fall into CS or not because there won't be any customers willing to waste thier money on the 50-50 odds that service will be given. The company knows it and I bet they feared that scenario back in '97. BROTHERHOOD? What a joke. If that's the kind of "I got mine and the hell with anybody else" attitude my dues money is going for, then it's WAY PAST TIME to even the playing field. [/QUOTE]
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