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Tennessee

walkingman

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1. I hope they vote to unionize. I say this as someone that is retired with a Defined Benefit Plan

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jun 8, 2019, 12:58 PM

Jun 2019

pension. I retired management but without our union workforce we simply would not have had this benefit. Even so our management healthcare benefit was cut for pre-65 employees and not so for my union brothers (they had a contract). Corporations do not give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

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I hope they vote to unionize. I say this as someone that is retired with a Defined Benefit Plan walkingman Jun 2019 #1

Only when the increased pay passes ROB-ROX Jun 2019 #2