Originally Posted by
BelowMins
I may be wrong here since this is 9k's first contract but I don't believe the company can just cut the $3/hr override while in negotiations. It would be a change to the "status quo". It would be like the company cutting pay to $5/hr when a union is voted in and saying "ok we'll give you a 'raise' back to your original $15/hr rate".
Again I know this applies to companies amending a contract but I'm not sure if it applies while negotiating a first contract.
Either way good luck to everyone at 9K. It's always been a great place to work and I'm sure it will continue to be.
That is accurate. I think a better way to put it is, if there were no union negotiations, the override would be gone. During negotiations, the company's initial offer probably included cutting the override, and the unions initial offer was something similar to raising everyone's pay to Caribbean levels. And we met somewhere in the middle. Only thing is, do we think they met close enough to the middle, or do we need to work on section 3 some more.