Ok ill try here goes. We will all still buy new cars go on two great vacations a year and drink good beer , wine , liquor. We will eat steak, seafood and have weekends at the islands. Some of our favorite brother and sisters will retire good ( I hate these good guy that go because I love them) and they will tell everyone they were teamsters at the 55 and ker retirement cummunity. Those people will resent them but it is what it is.
Meanwhile your company In 2019 will be making 9 to 13 billion a year net and we will all be getting more in yet another contract. Cry me a river I'm blowing a wad on my wife for Mother's Day and ill do it for ever because I work for a company who pays me good thanks to hall and the international brotherhood of teamsters. Cry me a river I'm about Ten pounds overweight because I eat real real GOOD.
OK407, I'll try here goes. You're right, you will be buying those new cars and have great vacations. And drink good beer and wine. I'm not much
of a liquor guy. Not much of a steak eater but I like my lobster. But forget about retiring at 55. That's not going to happen when your monthly health care cost
is going to go through the roof in 2018. Not to mention the loss of benefits some people currently have. And in all my posts you've never seen me once complain about the hourly increases.
I agree, those are fair.
This is all about the health care issue. If you're 55 in 2018, you're not going anywhere. Because you won't be able to pay the 1000 a month
health care bill (next contract) when you retire along with that college education for your kid. And that car loan you still have out on those new cars. So you'll stay.
And the health care cost per month will keep going up. So you'll stay. And the next thing you know you're 65. And those part timers waiting for a job will continue
to wait. They won't start driving until they're 35. Now they need to work 35 years because of that unfair 4 year progression.
I retired at 55 with 32 full time years. One reason and one reason only. Because my health care for my wife and myself was $50 a month. And a part timer who
came into our center, who I mentored and helped train a bit ended up getting a full time driving job. A hard working young man with a wife and 2 kids who now has
a future at UPS. I understand he's doing quite well. And now he can afford all that stuff you like. But he won't be retiring at 55. Because he won't get the same
great health care package I got from a company that made 4 billion profit last year. And I think that stinks.