gandydancer
Well-Known Member
Getting back to the supposed subject of this thread: So, let's see if I've got this right. The new contract takes all the young, healthy new hires out of my health plan for their first year, leaving the decrepit old farts like me ($200,000 for three and a half weeks in the hospital this June, never mind doctors, drugs and tests; and I'm now on insulin and have torn meniscus in both knees...) So my health plan has a deficit to make up. Now, there's a "maintenance of benefits" clause in Western States that would ordinarily require UPS to make up the surplus on the healthy my health plan currently enjoys... but they can decide to draw on my raises to fund that. So my $4 over the next five years, which doesn't quite make up for the 20% or so in inflation we can expect, will be reduced to $2.25? And there are givebacks in the language too?
