ALPA MEC CODE-A-PHONE UPDATE - September 25, 2003
This is Jack Stephan with a US Airways MEC update for Thursday, September 25 with one new item.
The events on Capitol Hill dealing with the restoration of our defined benefit pension plan are extremely fluid as the 108th Congress is working towards adjournment, possibly as early as mid-November. The MEC and Legislative Affairs Committee would like to thank those who responded to the recent request for e-mails, letters and faxes to Chairman Judd Gregg and Senator Edward Kennedy of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. We are now calling for all pilots to immediately fax, email and U.S. mail a letter of personal circumstances to your representatives in the Senate and the House, describing the adverse impact that your greatly-diminished retirement plan has or will have on you and your family’s future financial security. A concise one page letter should include the following:
your years of service at retirement,
any military service ,
the fact that it is mandatory for pilots to retire at age 60,
the difference from your original anticipated/earned retirement, and the lack of time to recover those benefits,
your ineligibility for Social Security until age 62.5 or later, and
any other significant career events, such as a lost pension through past airline service.
There is no template letter for this new effort. We are asking you to tell your own story in your own words, encouraging your legislators to support H.R. 2719, The Air Line Pension Act of 2003. For a quick congressional fax, email and U.S. mail directory of your legislators, log onto www.congress.org and enter your zip code. As a reminder, if you do not have access to a computer and need this contact information, please call the MEC office at 800 USAIR MEC and someone in the Communications Department will assist you with the faxing, emailing or U.S. mailing of your letters.
Your continued aggressive and timely involvement is making a difference, as there are now 62 co-sponsors in the House for H.R. 2719.
The MEC, MEC officers, and Legislative Affairs Committee thank for your continued involvement with this pension legislation grassroots effort.
This is Jack Stephan with a US Airways MEC update for Thursday, September 25 with one new item.
The events on Capitol Hill dealing with the restoration of our defined benefit pension plan are extremely fluid as the 108th Congress is working towards adjournment, possibly as early as mid-November. The MEC and Legislative Affairs Committee would like to thank those who responded to the recent request for e-mails, letters and faxes to Chairman Judd Gregg and Senator Edward Kennedy of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. We are now calling for all pilots to immediately fax, email and U.S. mail a letter of personal circumstances to your representatives in the Senate and the House, describing the adverse impact that your greatly-diminished retirement plan has or will have on you and your family’s future financial security. A concise one page letter should include the following:
your years of service at retirement,
any military service ,
the fact that it is mandatory for pilots to retire at age 60,
the difference from your original anticipated/earned retirement, and the lack of time to recover those benefits,
your ineligibility for Social Security until age 62.5 or later, and
any other significant career events, such as a lost pension through past airline service.
There is no template letter for this new effort. We are asking you to tell your own story in your own words, encouraging your legislators to support H.R. 2719, The Air Line Pension Act of 2003. For a quick congressional fax, email and U.S. mail directory of your legislators, log onto www.congress.org and enter your zip code. As a reminder, if you do not have access to a computer and need this contact information, please call the MEC office at 800 USAIR MEC and someone in the Communications Department will assist you with the faxing, emailing or U.S. mailing of your letters.
Your continued aggressive and timely involvement is making a difference, as there are now 62 co-sponsors in the House for H.R. 2719.
The MEC, MEC officers, and Legislative Affairs Committee thank for your continued involvement with this pension legislation grassroots effort.
