If health insurance and supplement to social security aren’t worth anything to you, you can stop reading now. I figure the supplement is worth $220,000 alone for the next 13 years, that and insurance premiums we’ll have to pay because we’ve lost VEBA are worth about $30,000. Lets add them together, hmm, that’s about quarter million dollars.
If it’s not worth a ¼-Mil$ for you to get your ass off the couch, write, call, AND email your congressmen and Senators lettting them know this is important to you, then they will think it’s not. PLEASE make a nuisance of yourself, have your friends and family contact their Representatives too. Why don’t you write the letter for them, give them pre-addressed / stamped envelopes to all their Reps, so all they have to do is sign it and mail it?
HR3455 is a bill that Congressman Tim Ryan has introduced to get the IAM (and others) back into the insurance program that the UAW is going to get (THAT YOU’RE NOT). The time is NOW for YOU contact your representatives in Washington and tell them to support HR3455 AND any action that can be taken to get the supplement to Social Security that YOU are entitled to. If they don’t know what they can do, ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) http://help.senate.gov/ look into why the IAM, the IBEW, the IUE, the Steelworkers, the Operating Engineers, their salaried workers, and others were left out of the pension supplements when most of their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored.
Ask them why, after the PBGC put liens on all Delphi's overseas operations last fall to get money for (your) the pension fund, did the Treasury department decide to remove the liens?
Why is GM is discriminating against splinter unions on direction of the Treasury? Why are overseas companies being protected and American workers (and taxpayers) being left out in the cold?
If you’re the type that thinks “Oh well, that’s just the way it is”, remember every time your contract was negotiated in the last 30 years, you gave something up for the promise of these benefits. Are you going to let them go without a whimper? Aren’t you a little outraged that the UAW is getting YOUR share of the supplement and VEBA?
Here’s your “to do” list.
1 tell Congressmen to support HR3455, ask Senators to introduce a senate bill (SB#) with the same goal. 2 Ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) look into why the IAM and other unions were left out of the pension supplements when their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored. 3 The Ohio house delegation have all signed a letter to Treasury, ask your reps to join in any more efforts with the Ohio delegation to protect our interests. 4 do it now!
If health insurance and supplement to social security aren’t worth anything to you, you can stop reading now. I figure the supplement is worth $220,000 alone for the next 13 years, that and insurance premiums we’ll have to pay because we’ve lost VEBA are worth about $30,000. Lets add them together, hmm, that’s about quarter million dollars.
If it’s not worth a ¼-Mil$ for you to get your ass off the couch, write, call, AND email your congressmen and Senators letting them know this is important to you, then they will think it’s not. PLEASE make a nuisance of yourself, have your friends and family contact their Representatives too. Why don’t you write the letter for them, give them pre-addressed / stamped envelopes to all their Reps, so all they have to do is sign it and mail it?
HR3455 is a bill that Congressman Tim Ryan has introduced to get the IAM (and others) back into the insurance program that the UAW is going to get (THAT YOU’RE NOT). The time is NOW for YOU contact your representatives in Washington and tell them to support HR3455 AND any action that can be taken to get the supplement to Social Security that YOU are entitled to. If they don’t know what they can do, ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) http://help.senate.gov/ look into why the IAM, the IBEW, the IUE, the Steelworkers, the Operating Engineers, their salaried workers, and others were left out of the pension supplements when most of their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored.
Ask them why, after the PBGC put liens on all Delphi's overseas operations last fall to get money for (your) the pension fund, did the Treasury department decide to remove the liens?
Why is GM is discriminating against splinter unions on direction of the Treasury? Why are overseas companies being protected and American workers (and taxpayers) being left out in the cold?
If you’re the type that thinks “Oh well, that’s just the way it is”, remember every time your contract was negotiated in the last 30 years, you gave something up for the promise of these benefits. Are you going to let them go without a whimper? Aren’t you a little outraged that the UAW is getting YOUR share of the supplement and VEBA?
Here’s your “to do” list.
1 Ask Congressmen to support HR3455, ask Senators to introduce a senate bill (SB#) with the same goal. 2 Ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) look into why the IAM and other unions were left out of the pension supplements when their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored. 3 The Ohio house delegation have all signed a letter to Treasury, ask your reps to join in any more efforts with the Ohio delegation to protect our interests. 4 Do it now!
Delphi workers carried their weight, earned their keep
If health insurance and supplement to social security aren’t worth anything to you, you can stop reading now. I figure the supplement is worth $220,000 alone for the next 13 years, that and insurance premiums we’ll have to pay because we’ve lost VEBA are worth about $30,000. Lets add them together, hmm, that’s about quarter million dollars.
If it’s not worth a ¼-Mil$ for you to get your ass off the couch, write, call, AND email your congressmen and Senators lettting them know this is important to you, then they will think it’s not. PLEASE make a nuisance of yourself, have your friends and family contact their Representatives too. Why don’t you write the letter for them, give them pre-addressed / stamped envelopes to all their Reps, so all they have to do is sign it and mail it?
HR3455 is a bill that Congressman Tim Ryan has introduced to get the IAM (and others) back into the insurance program that the UAW is going to get (THAT YOU’RE NOT). The time is NOW for YOU contact your representatives in Washington and tell them to support HR3455 AND any action that can be taken to get the supplement to Social Security that YOU are entitled to. If they don’t know what they can do, ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) http://help.senate.gov/ look into why the IAM, the IBEW, the IUE, the Steelworkers, the Operating Engineers, their salaried workers, and others were left out of the pension supplements when most of their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored.
Ask them why, after the PBGC put liens on all Delphi's overseas operations last fall to get money for (your) the pension fund, did the Treasury department decide to remove the liens?
Why is GM is discriminating against splinter unions on direction of the Treasury? Why are overseas companies being protected and American workers (and taxpayers) being left out in the cold?
If you’re the type that thinks “Oh well, that’s just the way it is”, remember every time your contract was negotiated in the last 30 years, you gave something up for the promise of these benefits. Are you going to let them go without a whimper? Aren’t you a little outraged that the UAW is getting YOUR share of the supplement and VEBA?
Here’s your “to do” list.
1 tell Congressmen to support HR3455, ask Senators to introduce a senate bill (SB#) with the same goal.
2 Ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) look into why the IAM and other unions were left out of the pension supplements when their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored.
3 The Ohio house delegation have all signed a letter to Treasury, ask your reps to join in any more efforts with the Ohio delegation to protect our interests.
4 do it now!
August 14, 2009 at 7:56 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Delphi retirees need support
If health insurance and supplement to social security aren’t worth anything to you, you can stop reading now. I figure the supplement is worth $220,000 alone for the next 13 years, that and insurance premiums we’ll have to pay because we’ve lost VEBA are worth about $30,000. Lets add them together, hmm, that’s about quarter million dollars.
If it’s not worth a ¼-Mil$ for you to get your ass off the couch, write, call, AND email your congressmen and Senators letting them know this is important to you, then they will think it’s not. PLEASE make a nuisance of yourself, have your friends and family contact their Representatives too. Why don’t you write the letter for them, give them pre-addressed / stamped envelopes to all their Reps, so all they have to do is sign it and mail it?
HR3455 is a bill that Congressman Tim Ryan has introduced to get the IAM (and others) back into the insurance program that the UAW is going to get (THAT YOU’RE NOT). The time is NOW for YOU contact your representatives in Washington and tell them to support HR3455 AND any action that can be taken to get the supplement to Social Security that YOU are entitled to. If they don’t know what they can do, ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) http://help.senate.gov/ look into why the IAM, the IBEW, the IUE, the Steelworkers, the Operating Engineers, their salaried workers, and others were left out of the pension supplements when most of their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored.
Ask them why, after the PBGC put liens on all Delphi's overseas operations last fall to get money for (your) the pension fund, did the Treasury department decide to remove the liens?
Why is GM is discriminating against splinter unions on direction of the Treasury? Why are overseas companies being protected and American workers (and taxpayers) being left out in the cold?
If you’re the type that thinks “Oh well, that’s just the way it is”, remember every time your contract was negotiated in the last 30 years, you gave something up for the promise of these benefits. Are you going to let them go without a whimper? Aren’t you a little outraged that the UAW is getting YOUR share of the supplement and VEBA?
Here’s your “to do” list.
1 Ask Congressmen to support HR3455, ask Senators to introduce a senate bill (SB#) with the same goal.
2 Ask them to request that the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (the H.E.L.P. committee) look into why the IAM and other unions were left out of the pension supplements when their contracts had the same wording as the UAW contracts that they honored.
3 The Ohio house delegation have all signed a letter to Treasury, ask your reps to join in any more efforts with the Ohio delegation to protect our interests.
4 Do it now!
August 14, 2009 at 7:51 p.m. permalink suggest removal