Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Haven't gotten to the actual survey yet because I'm still shaking my head over this part of the email:
Note: Questions 28 and 29 concern pay rate increases and ask you to enter a number. You should answer each question with a two-digit number, e.g. express 5% as 05, 12% as 12, etc.
Don't you just love DALPA's template? The fact that they even talk about how to express a single digit pay rate increase is ridiculous enough. But what example do they use for a two digit pay rate increase?...12%! Not 50%, not 80%? What about how to input a three digit desire?
If you don't think DALPA has already decided what they hope we'll demand, you're kidding yourself. DALPA is in full expectations management mode to ensure they can show that their minimalistic desires are really what the pilots wanted too.
Carl
That is hella sad. Wow. I guess we can always compromise between 12, the high water mark, and 7, the constructive engagement target range, and end up with 9.5%....over the course of 5 years. Um, not! (Do people still say that? "Not!" after saying something they disagree with?)
Although I think you may be attacking ALPA unfairly on this one. I think they will gladly fight for 30, 50 or more percent raise, all the way up to 99% if that's what we want. You notice that you can't put in a triple digit number? There is a reason for that:
Whatever double digit percentage we put in we will get!!!!!!!!!! The catch is that same percentage will be the amount of current flying that we can further outsource. You know, cause airlines all the sudden can't buy planes anymore because of the debt, so we need to outsource them to fake airlines that take that debt with their only collateral being our long term iron clad co-signature on "their" loan.
So 99% raise means we get to keep 1% of our current flying. 30% raise means we only have to outsource 30 more percent of our flying, what a deal!