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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 1293069" data-attributes="member: 14176">No, I'm saying I would rather rely on a long proven system of checks and balances.In the present plan we enjoy, if the company were to try to reduce our level of benefits, the union has the power to address the issue up to and including a strike on a company that is recording record profits.What recourse do we have when the Central States Board of Directors decides that they have to reduce our benefits (or divert our wages) in the face of defined contributions by UPS, coupled with increased healthcare costs?Add in present language contained in the ACA and you have what we've got here.A failure to ratify.</blockquote>