There is a 15 year service time gap between the topped out employees at my station and those on the next closest step (I think they're Step 4). That means no one who was hired in all the years between them stayed when they started stretching out the time to top out. All part of the FedEx plan. In less than 10 years there won't be many topped out employees at all.
Fedex understands a person running a route for a few years is just as efficient as a topped out courier. They will get basically the same production from a 5 yr as they get from a 25 yr at much lowered cost.
Legitimate question.
If you guys and gals actually want to make a living and put something away for retirement, why don't you organize at the district level and plan a job action?
No blue collar since around 2003 or 2004 has any pension benefit. A 401-k is not a pension.
It's just a question, not directed to you only. I'm hoping someone else reading this to you might respond.