Wasn't directed to you, but now that your on the subject, ......,, how is it that I had been harping SCOPE all this time and I get so much grief, even as far as to make one of my fancy charts too, but I do get it, LUS is shaking in their boots because a lot is on the line. And yes LUS will be coming over to our ins. When we enroll next, will suffer from giving up scope, BUT if this soon to be TA is voted down, we all know the consequences, a trip to mediation witch always favors the company.
Yes Nyer
So why are you afraid to post the info of the Ta articles as members we should be informed. I'm sick and tired of no info from the ass . We have the right to know it's our contract and we should be told.
bob,
There are a few things that have showed signs of shifting within the industry regarding medical insurance. The 40% excise tax was the main culprit of what caused the other unions to have to give up their medical. It was a cultural thing where the company simply wasn't wanting to absorb millions of dollars from a 2020 excise tax. And it isn't going to absorb that with ours since our contract has a letter that allows the company that space. What has changed, and I think it is significant in this context, is that it's likely that Obamacare will morph or change prior to 2020. What we have seen from Uncle Donnie is that he appears to be very unwilling to tax companies. With Trumpcare, he rolled back the 40% excise tax, as introduced in the House. Not sure what version of the Trumpcare will pass, but the company can't keep stomping its feet about the excise tax because, now, it isn't necessarily immanent. Leverage to the union. And there is nothing wrong with a cultural event shifting a health care paradigm for union people and for us being positioned in a timely way because negotiations have been delayed. Other unions will follow the pattern in the next round of their negotiations. It makes no sense for us to follow the pattern set by the excise tax when the excise tax isn't necessarily immanent. Cultural events shift negotiations. Happens a lot. Not just 911 but federal laws. In this case, a delay in negotiations seems to have benefited all of us. I mean, I would think that the LAA health insurance will be tweaked better as opposed to LUS being tossed into your current cost version. And I base that on the possible elimination of the excise tax. I think that is reasonable. What would be unfounded is if LUS gave up health insurance cost when the excise tax isn't immanent. To say that all other unions and all other groups took on more cost, so we do to, is also unfounded, since that great shift was due almost exclusively to the excise tax. Unions negotiated ahead of it and they did so with less leverage, due to the 2020 drop dead date. That's my opinion on the matter and I hope AGC's stand up against any action by Sito which TA's more cost for us on health care. Our AGC's are personally responsible for this. And we also need some TWU southwest protections on that power stow. I got a bad feeling about that belt loader. It's great and saves backs and knees but after a JCBA all hell may break loose on jobs. In ORD, the company told our TWU here that it didn't believe more than 1 person was needed in the bin with the power stow [according to TWU local update]. I was disappointed in the union's response. It compromised already and said that it agreed with the company that only one person was needed if the person could be clearly seen (in front of the bin I guess). That's a slippery slope it just yielded to. I work with the power stow and things get caught in that belt and there should always be manning to make sure 2 persons are allowed in the bin.
