Re: The Health Care Benefits Will be Taken Away for Disabled Carpenters

[RDK]

WELL, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TWO NEW EXECUTIVES HIRED TODAY, THE EVE OF THE DISABLED CARPENTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES LOSING ALL MEDICAL COVERAGE.  NOW, AT LAST, WE CAN SEE WHERE OUR BENEFITS ARE GOING, TO PAY THEIR SIX FIGURE SALARIES.   WHAT A SAD TIME FOR HARD WORKING   PEOPLE WHO WORKED THROUGH RECESSIONS, GROUND ZERO, ILLNESSES AND INJURIES....

[NYC]

What is more disgraceful than 1/2 million dollar salaries and double retirement benefit perks and well placed Cadillac health coverage to UBC exec's. PLUS BONUSES!

What is more disgraceful than 100- 250k salaries and double retirement benefit perks & well placed Cadillac health coverage, PLUS CUSHY CONFERENCE ACCOMADATIONS for council exec's and employees.

All that while sick and injured retirees are now stripped of life saving medical needs

I'LL TELL YOU WHAT IS MORE DISGRACEFUL:

THAT THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP HAS NOT REVOLTED AGAINST THIS.

[RDK]

I AGREE, SOLIDARITY IS NOT A PART OF THE NYCDCC.  IT'S ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL !!  LET'S SEE HOW LONG IT LASTS NOW.   WHEN THE NEXT RECESSION HITS, WHICH IS CYCLICAL, KARMA WILL COME AROUND.

[Soldout Victim]

We are a broken and the union knows it, we are kidding ourselves with this false brotherhood. No one active joined in this fight, now they will feel what the local has in store for them. Get out of New York and let them have this faux union they call a brotherhood, same on the active members. It was once a great job and livelihood for a person to buy a home and feed their family.  

[RDK]

A PETITION SHOULD BE SENT TO JUDGE BERMAN SHOWING HIM THE HOURS THESE BURDENSOME DISABLED RETIREES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR MEDICAL.  MANY OF WHOM HAD MORE HOURS THAN PEOPLE WITH OVER 20 VESTED CREDITS.  WHERE IS THAT MONEY GONE?  WHO IS THAT MONEY COVERING?  ARE THE B CARPENTERS BEING COVERED BY THAT MONEY?  THAT MONEY WAS INVESTED?  WHAT DO WE TEACH THE NEXT GENERATION ABOUT LIFE, EQUALITY AND JUSTICE?   IF IT'S NOT IN A UNION IT IS NO PLACE.  SHAME ON THE DELEGATES, THE TRUSTEES AND THE MEMBERS FOR LETTING THIS HAPPEN.  MAYBE BILL WALSH OR SOME ONE WITH A BACKBONE WILL SPEAK UP...... HOWEVER, I DOUBT IT.