Hey, no one told you to live in Ohio. Just like everyone tells me I deserve what I get living in CA. Well you made your choice. You could have moved out west when you were PT. Don't blame us for your poor decisions.
It is just not in Ohio, we are talking about about 75 percent of our membership that live under the Central, Southern and East Coast agreements. The issue goes deeper than where you decide to live we all know that. The problem is the disparity between everyone’s final pension benefits under our collective bargaining agreements. One of the prime advantages of being in a Union is equal pay for equal work and seniority rights, this pension disparity goes against that principle. A vast majority of our members have been sold down the river in previous agreements, primarily our inferior supplemental and rider languages.
Not blaming anyone under the well maintained Western Pension Plans, smart decisions were made decades ago that did not happen elsewhere. I will forever blame the politics involved in our past leadership that did not care about all those rank and file who where left behind. The West deserves those pension benefits and I do not begrudge anyone who is getting better benefits in other areas.