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darkpuppet,Feb 15 2006, 08:45 AM Wrote:CUPE has nothing to bitch about.  IBM just cut all benefits after retirement and Overtime earnings no longer count as pensionable earnings.

There goes my retirement... anyone else want to overpay me for techie work?[right][snapback]170577[/snapback][/right]

But you see, this is where you have it backwards.

Rather than looking at the situation from "well, I don't have it, why should they?" look at it as "too bad I don't have a unified voice bargaining on my behalf to keep companies from reaping profit at the expense and sufferring of their employees (or worse yet, their retirees)". A union would have fought to keep the company from raping their retirees.

Or is IBM unprofitable?

I don't blindly agree with everything that unions do, but I'll take one over not having one.

On topic, good luck with the test.