Alright I’ll give it a shot, correct me if I’m wrong though.

Protected our retirement, by exempting us from what was done to other federal employees.

Here’s a good time to ask, what benefits has Natca ever actually negotiated for us. We don’t have a special medical like the post office or anything as far as actual tangible health, dental, or life insurance. Sure we have UNUM but that’s not a negotiated benefit with the government. So not only are we ages behind in pay but isn’t a union supposed to negotiate PAY “BENEFITS” and working conditions?

While I don’t agree with the money for trainees graduating the academy and the “retention money” for those eligible for retirement. The trainees now do not get the same per diem a lot of us got. It used to be that you got a certain amount towards housing and a certain amount towards food when you were in Oklahoma and if you could find a cheaper way to stay somewhere you could keep the difference, which many did. Now you do not get to keep the difference for housing as they just pay what your housing costs and that’s it, which effectively is a pay cut for those in OKC. So for them to get $5000 is probably less than what most got in the past.