Originally Posted by
CALFO
Next contract?
1. Whomever is saying this will probably be retired by the time another contract get completed.
2. The 747's will be long gone by then as well.
I really don't understand the heartache with pay banding. We are negotiating a number (not a contract). Whatever that final number (overall cost of the contract is) is what we'll get. Paybanding saves the company money, reduces the cost of the contract, and allows room for gains in other areas of the contract.
The headache!? If banding comes around only when companies are in bankruptcy then it doesn't take Craps (of the turd type) skills to realize that in due time you are leaving chips on the table. At CAL it has became a permanent concession and the only pay system that you probably lived under. Your banding system came about from your second bankruptcy, UAL from it's bankruptcy, DAL from it's bankruptcy, and now AMR in bankruptcy. The officers of each of these Chapter 11 companies in their time took the money that was left on the table and more, stuffing their pocket super tight. Not too difficult a pattern to recognize is it?
I strongly encourage the Juniors on here who have never had an opportunity to read "Flying the Line" to do so. Lacking a historical awareness of how you got what you have is the very reason for continuing the trend today of giving it all up. The pioneers will not forgive you...