Q: Hi Jose,
Thanks for your latest email, informative as always. It has caused me to ask you a quick question, and I'm sorry to have to ask:
What $8000? I see here on my W-2 that there was $9335.52 included with my SS wages and an "X" marked in a box marked "Ret Plan", but I have no recollection of getting that kind of money last year. Did it come in a separate check and during what month?
Any assistance would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks
A: The company made a special payment on July 2, 2007 which included the Emergence Payment (the Surplus Severance Payment that remained when the early outs were reduced from 1,200 to 600) and Claim Payment (40% of the Equity Claim - the other 60% was put directly into our 401(k) accounts), for a total of $7,976.96. You can view the July paycheck on RADAR > Pay and Benefits > Paychecks. Depending on whether you directed money from that check into your 401(k), you may not have seen a large check, but that would explain most of the $9,335.52 of SS wages. The X in the Ret Plan just means that you are part of a company sponsored retirement plan. When NWA contributed to our pension plan, that was an example of such a plan, as is our current one where the company puts a percentage of our wages into a 401(k).
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SEIU fighting back with their Hotel Workers campaign to get workers above poverty levels: http://www.hotelworkersrising.com/
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http://www.laborradio.org/
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php
http://www.labornotes.org/
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http://www.labor-studies.org/
Service not Servitude
The Pullman Porters – the first black union and they were in the service industry like us, but they had a strategy and knew how to affect politics (they helped start the civil rights movement): http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/index.htm
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Writers Guild of America West keeps the strike pressure on (does not cancel the strike like AFA international did with CHAOS at NWA) and looks close to a deal. No caving here: http://www.wga.org/
California Nurses Association is educating and fighting for America’s healthcare after having all of their members see the movie SICKO for free: http://ga1.org/campaign/cheneycare
SEIU fighting back with their Hotel Workers campaign to get workers above poverty levels: http://www.hotelworkersrising.com/
Some good general labor sites:
http://www.labornet.org/
http://www.laborradio.org/
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php
http://www.labornotes.org/
Labor History (find out what real unionists did):
http://www.labor-studies.org/
Service not Servitude
The Pullman Porters – the first black union and they were in the service industry like us, but they had a strategy and knew how to affect politics (they helped start the civil rights movement): http://www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
Union Democracy: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/index.htm
(Check out The LMRDA and the Union Members' Bill of Rights http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Legal/lmrda.htm)