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[BLOCKQUOTE][BR]----------------[BR]On 10/25/2002 8:17:36 PM hopethingswillbeok wrote:[BR][BR]i have been preaching for months about this abuse, but no one wanted to listen...instead of taking a major paycut, like getting paid seventy five percent while your on vacation....i asked the cwa to look into this abuse, and give into the company.....oh no they didn't see anything wrong with the family leave plan, once again they advised me they really don't care how much money it cost the company......this union sucks, they only care about themselves........i posted over six months ago about the abuse, but no one said a word.....now that we all have been hit, the good employees that is everyone is finally seeing what i was talking about...also some day you will all look about all the paycuts we have taken, but members of the same sex get to be on our insurance.....why do you think we will no longer have the insurance that we had? i am not bashing same sex partners, but unless the law says you are married than your married......also does anyone know about the abuse of partners living together.....i know for fact business men that are paying employees to say they live together to fly free.....this is happening so think of all the business the company no longer receives revenue for....the airlines have made this mess.....please tell me of another company outside of the airlines that allow this......[BR][BR]----------------[BR][BR][BR][BR][BR][BR]My understanding of same sex cohabitation, [STRONG]for any med or travel benefits, [/STRONG]is they must present some indisputeable tangible proof of being in a long term relationship. Only things I can think of would be Driv/licenses and maybe joint/individ. chkg. accts, to be listed under the same address for a certain period of time( 6 mos? a year?) ahead of trying to qualify for such benefits,otherwise it would appear contrived and fraudulent.And even these examples are not 100 pct foolproof, especially if you have long term casual roomate situations.[/BLOCKQUOTE][BR][BR]