What is happening with the LLNL Retire group suing UC to restore the health benefits to retirees? Apparently the Retiree Website is no longer being updated. See: http://llnlretiree.com/ Why did the judge decertify the retiree list?
http://www.independentnews.com/news/surprise-ruling-decertifies-retiree-class-in-lawsuit/article_7b76ca3e-d541-11e7-9c6c-47e48d1fdcf4.html
Yet I got an E-mail that included: " The order decertifying the class will result in our having to fight harder. There will be added expense. But we are determined to do the right thing for retirees who spent their lives worked at the Laboratory assuming they would get the benefits promised by the Regents, which we all understood were protected and guaranteed. It is not acceptable that retirees in our class (now including over 9,000 people when surviving spouses and dependents are counted). We must continue the fight! So we have to ask for your help again. Please give what you can afford. Every
http://www.independentnews.com/news/surprise-ruling-decertifies-retiree-class-in-lawsuit/article_7b76ca3e-d541-11e7-9c6c-47e48d1fdcf4.html
Yet I got an E-mail that included: " The order decertifying the class will result in our having to fight harder. There will be added expense. But we are determined to do the right thing for retirees who spent their lives worked at the Laboratory assuming they would get the benefits promised by the Regents, which we all understood were protected and guaranteed. It is not acceptable that retirees in our class (now including over 9,000 people when surviving spouses and dependents are counted). We must continue the fight! So we have to ask for your help again. Please give what you can afford. Every
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"After that we are all stuck with Social Security"
That may be true for some, but there are others whose career started before 1977 and may have not had any Social Security / Medicare benefits at all. The medical benefits for all of us is not guaranteed in retirement according to LLNS. So if you can get onto the UC medical plan and LLNS blows up medical retirement, you will have something especially if you don't qualify for medicare.
January 2 - Your retired from LLNS and not UC LLNL. The case has no bearing on your health benefits.
At the transition from the original contract, language regarding continuity of benefits was ignored by both UC and DOE.
Don't throw rocks if you don't know the whole story.
I'm glad to see this discussion, the retiree website appears to be dormant.
I think I did see an earlier post there that mentioned they'd raised over $350K, and spent over $40k....
Independent article Aug 9 at
Appeals Court Sides With LLNL Retirees
(Sorry - can't seem to get the link posted- do a search for it.)
explains there are more than 9000 affected,
and says more court action "at teh end of the month"
But I see no follow up- what happened?
Checked today 11/3/18 and last update appears to be in 2015.