Originally Posted by
sxf24
You answered your question with the first sentence of the second paragraph. Pensions (defined benefit plans) are an unsustainable benefits. An expansion of pension benefits will sink any company.
The NW Flight Attendants pension was frozen in 2006. DL wants to change our pensions to match those of their Flight Attendants. The DL Flight Attendants pension is offset by Social Security when they reach 65. That doesn't happen with NW Flight Attendants. We get our full negotiated pensions when we retire and our Social Security.
Even if NW Flight Attendants lose union representation, our pensions stay intact. This is something that the older DL Flight Attendants discovering. While NW Flight Attendants become DL Flight Attendants, the DL Flight Attendants won't be equal to us in this respect. They're starting not to like it.
So to treat the DL Flight Attendants more fairly, they should at least not have to suffer under the offset.