Kodak Retirees Protest Benefit Cuts

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Eastman Kodak ought to consider completely dispersing it's 4 billion dollar benefits fund to it's vested, retired, and current employees. Then sell the rest of what remains of it's business (probably not much more than it's name) and payoff the stock holders. There's really no reason for them to remain in business. There just taking up space and they know it.

Ralph E. Herter Jr. of TX 2:01PM June 11, 2011

trying to excess the program but the global id they sent doesn't work

john of SC 4:25PM November 22, 2010

I was a Fire Captain for Tennessee Eastman with 33 years service before it spun off from Kodak. I am now providing my own life insurance and dental insurance. My medical insurance will cost me 1% more a year for the next 10 years, during which time coverage for my wife will cease. I don't believe Kodak is paying much on my medical insurance anyway, because, when I read the medicare book it seems like that is all the Eastman Kodak medical insurance is. Retirees who retired after January 1, 1993 were just thrown under the bus by Kodak I don't knowingly buy anything made by Kodak unless it is a case where I don't have any choice. I would buy something made in China first. George Eastman would turn over in his grave if he knew aqbout this.

Robert E Darter of TN 12:01PM November 22, 2010

Well fellow retirees, we now know that Kodak execs. just throw us out with the trash. They stole virtuallty all of the retirement benefits we were openly promised when we left the company. Now for 2010, they force us into a single heath care paln with no alternatives and slap us in the face with a $5,000 yearly bill for CDHP coverage. That leaves a us yearly bill of at least $7,200 and potentially $12,000+ for medical insurance. Considering my yearly pension is $14,400 I guess Kodak wants me live in poverty. Kodak has a perverse way of saying thank-you for 33 years of service.

Mark S of NY 5:18PM November 21, 2010

WHEN I RETIRED IN 1991 SEVERAL PLACES IN MY PACKAGE STATED YOU WILL RCCIEVE THIS FOR LIFE AT NO COST TO YOU. WELL I AM STILL ALIVE
BUT THE BENEFITS I BASED MY RETIREMENT DECISIONS ON HAVE BEEN STOLEN. SO MUCH FOR TRUST KODAK.WE NOW HAVE A GROUP CALLED EASTMAN KODAK RETIREES ASSOCIATION TO WHICH I BELONG THAT IS TRYING TO STOP FUTURE BENEFITS LOSSES WHICH COULD EVEN AFFECT RETIREMENT ANNUITIES. THIS VERY TALENTED GROUP IS ALSO TRYINY TO FIND AFFORDABLE REPLACEMENTS FOR BENEFITS ALREADY STOLEN.YOU CAN JOIN THIS EFFORT AT WWW.EKRA.ORG YEARLY DUES ARE $15 AND WELL WORTH IT.

ARNOLD BAKER of NY 3:10PM November 19, 2010

I have tried and tried to get to my new benefits packaage and I could not do so. I am worried that Kodak really does want me to get to my benefits programs. Since my husband died of cancer in 2006 I have really felt that Kodak has failed to make it easier for us to us access any benefit concerns including this one. "benefits.kodak.com" Is there anyone out there listening.....

Hazel Tessier of NY 12:11PM November 16, 2010

Our CDHP went from $67 to $461 per month for the same coverage as the last 2 years. I guess we can count our blessings that we had 2 years of below $100
per month premiums. I called the benefits number to ask some questions. Good luck. Talk to the wall and you will get a better answer. Why is the CDHP now called CDHP/LTD (long term disability).?Why do I need long term disability from a company that I don't even work for? What goes into the calculation for what we contribute? Oh well. Ican't wait until next year and we get to deal with Medicare!!!!!

Jack of NY 4:36PM November 15, 2010

I finally got my package a week late. My CDHP went from $0 to $410 a month. Thought the CDHP was a good deal in that it let the retiree use what was needed in health care rather than was was mandated by others. So much for that! This latest package is a blatant effort to get retirees out of the Kodak health care system. It worked. Thankfullly, my wife, still an employee at Home Depot, has the equivalent of what we had at Kodak about110 years ago. $100 deductible, per person, up to either a 10K or 20 K max per person. 80% and 15 buck copays until that mark, which few would normally see.
We moved the jobs to Mexico. When that did not work we moved the Mexican here. Now we have virtually no local employees and have screwed the retirees on their benefits. Won't be long before the balance of the business is sold off and the retirees will be told by the new owners to go pound salt.
Thanks, Board of Directors. You got your 6 figure (and up) coverage. You protected the department heads and their minions. Nice job! Since the late 90's the venue has been to get rid of conventional manufacturing and become a global technology company. Well, you did one right! Is it time to cash in all the stock options I received for doing a good job while still there?????
I hope you all sleep well, knowing where you will be going some day!

Bill Woods of NY 3:57PM November 15, 2010

I couldn't get to the benefits.kodak.com screen. I tried a dozen times. I was finally able to open the screen by piggy backing someone else on lin that had the same problem but resolved. Now that I'm on I can't get a screen that allows me to change my "PIN"????? HELP!

Justus E. Otto of FL 2:31PM November 15, 2010

i also am wondering where our packets for the "good news" about the new and much higher rates for health care and why we cannot acess the new admin. page without a lot of b/s.

William P. Anderson of FL 11:43AM November 15, 2010