Political Quotes

“as cofounder of the House Labor and Working Families Caucus, I come to the floor today to address a serious injustice, United Airlines' plan to further cut the retirees benefits of 1,000 United retirees and their families. This is in spite of an agreement established between the airline and the employees when United entered bankruptcy. Two thousand five hundred flight attendants chose to retire early in order to preserve their retiree health benefits and agreed to sacrifice up to 30 percent of their well-earned pension. These loyal employees did so as part of a $1 billion concessionary contract to help their struggling employer. Now United is reneging on that deal. This is underhanded, and this is wrong. I urge our distinguished Speaker of the House, who has a large number of these retirees in his district, and all my colleagues to demonstrate a commitment to our retirees and join in asking the CEO of United Airlines to do the honorable thing and keep his promise to these workers.”