Let 'em all work until they are 75. All those years of fleecing everyone in sight and now the chickens come home to roost.
An additional kick in the seat is the union bosses who will laugh all the way to their sunset years with no worries since THEY aren't participants.
Just like our US congress excluded themselves from Obamacare?
Or, makes it lawful for them to do insider trading and against the law for me and you?
My Dad’s on Central States... he opposed the Teamsters’ corrupt bosses for funneling their funds to communists *cough* progressives for years but to no avail. No one he voted for was elected.
I imaging the union elections are thoroughly corrupted and fraudulent so that it really doesn’t matter if a local shop steward agrees with the union bosses or not.
What was really bad is that part of the union’s rules are that you cannot take a job that would normally be a union job once you retire or you risk losing your pension for violating “union turf” a/k/a potentially taking a job from a young union men currently paying dues.
So instead of taking a good paying truck driving job here he ended up taking low paying jobs at filling stations, etc., that were “not union turf.”
My Dad’s angry because when he retired and moved south he saw numerous driving opportunities down here to bring in extra income but was afraid to take the jobs for fear he’d lose the pension.
Not that he’d have had them for long as his health failed, but other retirees were in the same boat- experienced and very able to work but discouraged, even threatened not to do so, by the nature of their old union rules.
When they were young and dumb they signed onto those rules not realizing how limiting it would be.
Now for many who abided by the rules to preserve their pension and leave union jobs for younger workers, they get to find out their union isn’t going to abide by its end of the bargain, and it’s too late for them to make up for all the lost time once they’re in wheelchairs or fumbling around with dementia.