Originally Posted by
onetime
This is another example of why we should have been negotiating a real contract, essentially creating our own rest rules rather than going after 3/6% and hoping for a gov't glove save. There is no such thing as perpetual growth when it comes to our hourly rates. At some point we have to take a stand and fix QOL before it's too late.
The solution, of course, is perfect hindsight.
Being a proud 32%er, I wonder now how the numb n*ts that voted FOR the FDX FDA package feel? Now the company will slow roll us until the end of time, for they got their desires for a measily 6% raise. Now, nothing left for them to gain, so "negotiations" will be limited to peanut butter & jelly sandwiches or chicken chef salad at lunch.
A basic rule of negotiations is never, never, never give up the power card unless the other side has guaranteed measurable, definite and large benefits in other areas.
The 6% raise will be overcome by inflation in a few more years. Then, it'll be up to us (after proceeding down the proper and legal paths...) to go into self-help. Ha ha ha. Our pilot group at FDX has the backbone of an amoeba and the company knows it.
We gave them our power card for a measily 6%. Any QOL dreams are just that... dreams. Any improvements in the other contract issues (real time anything; deviation bank issues; our crazy disputed pairing process where the company has the final say on grading themselves....) are similarly pipe dreams.