Enginefireleft, Patently false, eh?
Article 25 of our collective agreement has at present 13 positions one can hold.
On a status quo bid (no increase in total number of positions/jobs) ONE individual allowed to remain past their contractual date of retirement will hold back (theoretically) 12 other pilots from moving up. That one person is affecting a lot of other people.
In other words, if your progression to the better paying jobs is only based on attrition, (no growth, and there hasn't been any in a looong time)and people would get to stay past 60, there are no places for folks to move up into. So YES, ABSOLUTELY, your career earnings and therefore pension will be reduced/suffer, compared to how things are now, or better yet, how they have been for you all along, as you moved up through the ranks.
Perhaps not here online, but should we meet in person, please have the balls to introduce yourself to me, so we can have a chat
Joseph