... There is a 30 day window between when the judge issues his ruling after the fairness hearing, and when the settlement becomes 'final' - - this window is a...
Thanks Janet, for the update on subclass 3. Do you have any updates for subclass 1 and 2. TedV ... There is a 30 day window between when the judge issues his...
... We're still waiting for the settlement notice to be finalized and the fairness hearing to be scheduled... The attorneys are still hoping to be done with it...
Today I saw an announcement that now the Congressional Budget Office indicates that annual income of Social Security would fall behind benefit payments in 2020...
Janet, What was this settlement for? I was wondering if I could have been part of it? I left IBM on a "Bridge To Retirement, Leave of Absence" back in 1992...
... This was a piece of the settlement of Cooper v IBM, specifically to people who were employed at IBM on July 1, 1999, but who subsequently left IBM without...
... Office ... by ... The CBO study came out in June of last year. http://www.cbpp.org/6-14-04bud.htm ... A new Congressional Budget Office analysis released...
How, exactly, do you figure that we IBMers benefit from shared salary surveys that are designed to keep salaries lower? IBM has freely admits that it does not...
... based ... estimates). ... the ... to ... The CBO study from June of last year had the 2052 estimate as the year the trust fund would be unable to pay full...
... Just wait a month and we will get several more. My own forcasting has to be redone at least 4 times a year as I get "new information". That's half the fun...
... eliminating/reducing retiree health plans, I would *think* people would be concerned about the REAL healthcare crisis. Yeah...but Bush doesn't owe a BIG...
One of outsourcings dirty little secrets that you seldom hear about (or that the media doesn't report about it enought) is the use and eploitation of child...
... I can tell you how it hurt me! While working with IBM 96-98, it hurt the movement of the band. After I retired and was contracting, each contract paid a...
Not so simple. You say "if"... Well, my salary is not lower than the surveyed industry average for my skill and band. So the survey has hurt me, and...
... get cut unless they changed the band, but for those going from job to job, there was an affect. Agreed. That's why I said it wouldn't negatively impact...
The WSJ article on Subsidies for Retirees drug costs missed part of the grand ripoff. - Jan 28th -- In the case of Boeing and maybe a few others, here is how....
... - ... 'crises'. ... IMO, HMOs, insurance companies, and drug companies got their payback with the passage of the Medicare prescription drug bill. I have...
Editorial in the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la- ed-health2feb02.story ... Among the largely undiscussed drawbacks of the...
... Janet, Any idea what is being negotiated? What are some of the likely scenarios? There must be a finite set of settlement scenarios for subclass 1 & 2....
The "industry average" is set by companies working together and then calling it a "survey." There should be no contact between companies on this subject. This...
IBM's salary survey group is a type of union in reverse. What is needed is an employee organization (a union?) that "surveys" salary information and pressures...
... deep> discounts in the medical economy. The administration has yet to ... So. Employees were hoodwinked until 1999. Now let's see if the American people...
... I'm not at liberty to state what is happening now; all I can do is assure you that the plaintiffs' attorneys are working as dilligently as they can to get...
... something ... challenged in ... Remember this information sharing is done under the guise of "Non-disclosure Agreements". Participants are supposedly...
Does anyone have any news, gossip, or speculation concerning the status of, and chance for success of, the appeal of the IBM order entered in the Southern...
... The appeal has not been filed, and won't be until the settlement notices are distributed and the fairness hearing is held and ruled on... Further...
