High Life
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Dear PCN (of over 2600 subscribers),
In just a another day it will be New Year’s eve and
2013 will soon be here.
Happy
New Year to all!
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My
Personal Take on the Petition – Take 2:
Soon the petition effort will close and
then Rob will attempt to advance the cause. We are all aware that in recent
history, the company washed their hands of at least three of our main
retirement benefits and there is an incredibly high hurdle (more like a closed
and locked door) to have any of them opened up again. Those three areas are; the defined benefit
pension, the non-qualified benefit, and the medical benefit. Just being honest, talking to the company
about these issues won’t be easy. It will obviously be an appeal to the
company’s better angels and quite frankly that is a big challenge. But I can tell you this. While I support 100% everything the DP3 is
currently doing, and looking forward to progress with the PBGC, there is currently
no one keeping the issue hot before the company’s vision. For that I applaud Rob and support him. Even if Rob has no headway with the petition
effort and subsequent meeting, Rob will sleep better and night and so will I
for bringing it to the fore again. For
that matter it should be a thorn in the side or a blemish on the record
constantly for our company, since we all agree that it was an injustice.
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Subscribers
vs Membership:
If you have ever managed a large email
list before you will relate to this very easily. THE hardest thing of managing a list is
keeping email addresses current. Before
long most large lists have a huge number of undeliverable emails because of old
addresses. At the PCN it is
different. I actually take some pride in
the fact that we have over 2500 email addresses that are actually getting every
notice and are completely current. By
having a little more skin in subscribing (two step process) AND by using the
Google group, I know exactly how many of our notices are “getting
delivered.” That said, it is easy to
assume that those who subscribe to the PCN are members. By that I mean it is easy to think that we
all think pretty much alike. Well, the
petition has brought some enlightening to the fore again. All Rob is asking for is a simple
signature. Not blood. Not money. Not work.
Just a signature. From our group
alone we should be able to quickly and easily produce 2500 signatures and, when
family is thrown in, it should easily double to 5000. But the petition is sitting at just over
2600, why? Well, I guess it is a lesson
in the difference between subscribers and members. It is obvious that we don’t all think
alike. Many simply are not moved enough
that anything can be done to make the pension wrong ….right. In fact I believe that while we all believe
it to be an injustice, we do not all believe that something can be done about
it. Further, many of us must believe
that it is simply a waste of time. To
me that is a bit frustrating but, then again, I have to remind myself why I do
this. The PCN is an online community
that keeps us connected. It isn’t
intended to be a movement, nor a political or organized voice. I do appreciate those of you who have
supported Rob and petition. We all
intuitively know that he is leading an effort that has a steep uphill
climb. But we also know that we would
like the company execs to have to stumble over this inequitable issue every day
of their careers. Keeping it front and center is at least worth a signature!
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80-90%
of your retirement?
The company used these numbers to
convince all that what the Delta retired pilots would get would be a hair cut,
but not all that bad. Of course that
turned out to be grossly over exaggerated. Can anybody provide me an official
company document where they referred to these numbers? Please scan or send the reference and send to mark@pilotcommunication.net Thanks.
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