Originally Posted by
Wingnutdal
He made a point that between US Air, AA, United and Continental they have been in section 6 contract negotiations for a combined 25 years. That's staggering to me. There's the time value of money, sure. There's holding out for a stellar contract that meets everyone's every wish, sure. There has to be some happy medium.
I believe what he was getting at was that they ended up getting nothing after all of these years and are going to take a paycut now.
(and 4 percent a year without some other incredible, stellar, amazing, out of this world contract improvements would be a no vote for me.)
Originally Posted by
Wingnutdal
Oh yeah, rumor alert. Not related at all to the meeting, but I heard that US Air is negotiating directly with the AA pilots for Delta rates plus 3% with a 7 year fence for support in their takeover attempt.
Would be AWESOME for us in my opinion.
Yeah. It would be awesome. Also consider that if they can get our rates + 3% for never really putting together a successful merger (like we did), that we should expect a kick a$$ contract
without having to wait 6+ years.