Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="DELACROIX" data-source="post: 6092069" data-attributes="member: 49065">Our pension and health and welfare benefits should not be discriminatory.&nbsp; Why does one body/region of Union members get almost 2 X or 3 X as much as others ?&nbsp; It goes against the concept of equal pay/benefits for equal work/seniority, the Union Leadership has dropped the ball or more than likely do not give a damn about ALL their membership.&nbsp; I been through it and one thing I can tell you is that the Pension and Health and Welfare protections have been under attack for over 40 years...ever heard of ERISA ?, read it sometime.&nbsp; The Federal agencies that govern or enforce that law are wrought with bureaucracy and corporate influence/fraud, soon it will not exist...traditional pension plans are a thing in the past, the company has been nibbling along the edges since 1991 in order to quit paying into our plans or playing shell games with our benefits.&nbsp; The 1997 strike was the real turning point, the Central States debacle was the driving issue, not part timer work....The truth is that the company used our membership&#039;s greed and fears to their best advantage, turning one set of our rank and file against others.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DELACROIX, post: 6092069, member: 49065"] Our pension and health and welfare benefits should not be discriminatory. Why does one body/region of [B]Union[/B] members get almost [B]2 X or 3 X [/B]as much as others ? It goes against the concept of equal pay/benefits for equal work/seniority, the Union Leadership has dropped the ball or more than likely do not give a damn about [B]ALL [/B]their membership. I been through it and one thing I can tell you is that the Pension and Health and Welfare protections have been under attack for over 40 years...ever heard of [B]ERISA ?, [/B]read it sometime. The Federal agencies that govern or enforce that law are wrought with bureaucracy and corporate influence/fraud, soon it will not exist...traditional pension plans are a thing in the past, the company has been nibbling along the edges since 1991 in order to quit paying into our plans or playing shell games with our benefits. The 1997 strike was the real turning point, the [B]Central States debacle[B] [/B]was the driving issue, not part timer work....[/B] The truth is that the company used our membership's greed and fears to their best advantage, turning one set of our rank and file against others. [/QUOTE]

Verification