Age Discrimination??
Gentlemen,
We must first look at the contracts that we all signed when we came here. All with the exception of those on COS08 have a written retirement of 55. I know the company is known to change things when it suits them, so I can already hear guys muttering that.
The whole age discrimination argument is a farce because we signed on for it. Look at the case in Canada. A number of current and retired AC pilots took the company (AC) to court because they wanted age 65 (opposed to their contractual 60). They cried age discrimination. The high courts ruled against the pilots plainly stating that their retirement age is/was written in their contract. It was an agreement that they willingly signed and that was negotiated by their pilot union. Essentially, they were told that it was not a discriminatory issue and if they wanted the age changed, their union needed to renegotiate their COS.
Would the same ruling be found here or elsewhere? I don't know; I'll leave that for the lawyers among us.
MACH.88