When is a contract not a contract? | Letter to the editor

The early retiree health insurance offer to SPEEA from Boeing management is absurd. In it, employees are offered a ‘non-contractual contract’, where the company can unilaterally change or cancel important benefits at any time.

The early retiree health insurance offer to SPEEA from Boeing management is absurd.  In it,  employees are offered a ‘non-contractual contract’, where the company can unilaterally change or cancel important benefits at any time.  Who would buy a car from a dealer with a sales contract that allowed the dealer to take back the wheels and cancel the warranty at a whim?  Would Boeing buy parts and supplies under such and arrangement?  Would anyone?  Would you?

John Neller, Renton