Mulva,
If it was garbled, then you'll have to ask the company why. It's from their newfangled website. :wink:
The only thing that chart proves is that the company has been gradually shifting, as a percentage share, more and more of the cost of health care to its employees. And you're right, it's going on all over the nation. RAH is not all that different from many other corporations. But, your examples notwithstanding, it puts the lie to the company's assertion that it isn't shifting more of the burden to its employees. And with most of our FOs frozen in salary seemingly in perpetuity, this is a very relevant charge.
This is the one I really like:
Job security: Our employees have benefitted from unparalleled job security and job growth since September 11, 2001. Because of teamwork and good decisions, Republic has avoided deep, long-lasting layoffs that have plagued other air carriers. Additionally, we’ve worked hard to avoid and minimize pilot furloughs. When furloughs have been necessary, we have been able to return pilots to work fairly quickly.
By my count, we have had four pilot furloughs in ten years. Pilots have been out of work up to two years. In some cases, the company fired out of seniority even though it knew it was illegal. This is blatant disregard for the truth, but par from the course from a company whose "guiding principles" contains this nugget: "Tell the truth." It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. These are the guys you're working for. I'm sorry if you trust them more than you trust us, but that's the way this has gone from the beginning.
And speaking of tragic, it sucks that we're at each other's throats when it shouldn't be this way. Our fight was, and always has been, with management that served notice that it wanted to toss our scope out of the window. What would you have done? Would you have been so complicit?