The Eagle pilots never saw the proposal, we were given bullet points from the union.
The proposal offered no contract changes to the current Eagle pilots.
B scale for new hires
A guarantee of 60 large RJs and a fleet plan
If a pilot from the time of signing didn't flow his pay would frozen
100% furlough protection
Everyone on property would have a flow with a minimum of 25% occupancy at AA classes
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The first bullet doesn't matter because the contract changes the company is looking for will be obtained via the longevity adjustment in 2016. This is when the company will adjust the longevity of the senior pilots to match that of the lowest two regionals. Today it would be RAH and Pinnacle.
The B scale, the company is already spending a significant amount of money on new hires and hiring folks with benefits while they instruct. They are offering bonuses today! If you are struggling to hire new folks that you have to give them bonuses I don't see why you need to cut their pay except (read below)
A guarantee of 60 large RJ, by what I have heard from management and I have seen so far they are looking to employee people from college and CFI academy, pay them substandard wages at the regional (or at least now allow the pay to increase as the demands for pilots increases) and then send them to mainline. This is why they are hiring them before they have the 1500 hrs, they are tying up the new guys and putting them on a commitment contract. So they need airplanes for these guys to sign and Eagle already gives them a cost competitive contract and they know that but are making the final moves before they have to unveil their plans as time is ticking.
Most guys that don't flow will be maxed on their scale and if they are not they will be indexed to the bottom two regionals in two years so this bullet doesn't matter.
We currently have 95% furlough protection. If things got so bad here that we needed to furlough the company would have to offer LOA, and if the company became so stagnant folks would be bailing out anyway so not worth it for 5%.
We already have a guarantee of a minimum of 25% per class and after 824 have gone it goes 35% and if we furlough it has to go to a minimum of 50%
*******They have a plan for Eagle and they are going to do it, management is setting themselves up to take people from student CFI and then contract them out, then to the regional and followed by mainline. They already have us as a B scale workforce and there is no need to place out new hires at ay regional across the board. If we vote in a B scale we are interfering with the invisible hand. Supply and demand always wins and management makes money at Eagle and they are looking to continue to milk that cow.