Reducing benefits of their employees so they can fund other projects. We don't have any say in it. Can't take our sick leave if we leave employ, (it is added to our retirement, but not used to reach retirement) and we'd get pd for our annual, but I have 8 months of leave accrued! Do you know how long it would take me to accrue that somewhere else? I have almost 25 yrs with this company, and they just want to keep cutting because they can, until we take a stand. I would like to hear from someone from employees who are in a union and have someone to do the bargaining for them.
As someone who has been one of the management 'bad guys' and a business owner for a long time;
It sounds like you have (or had) incredibly good benefits to start with. Those benefit levels are seldom ever seen any more. I certainly understand why you would be upset to have received them once and see them dwindling..but I also understand you have not much idea where the average benefit package and restrictions actually are these days. Just sayin..
And what employees have a 'say' in the management decisions of the company they work for??
Anyway...its a very odd company that would reduce benefits arbitrarily because its obviously bad for employee morale. It can happen and it has happened..but its lousy business practice and therefore rare enough because of that fact. "To fund other projects' is far too vague for me to get a feel for their real reasons. If their reasons for reducing employee benefits are anything like mine were when I was forced to reduce benefits...it was to try and keep the company barely profitable.... and even alive. Organizing is NEVER going to make a marginally profitable company do anything but simply close their doors.
Good luck with it, however it turns out.