Originally Posted by
DALMD88FO
Just to be up front I voted no on the joint contract. The excuse that we got the minimal pay rate increases in the joint contract was because oil spiked to $147/barrel. I told my rep then that oil would go down and we will look silly. It did and we did. Also the original joint contract had 2% more on the first year. I will not go into a discussion as to why that disappeared.
This contract has a lot of good things in it, let them add a couple more percentages to the pay rates and it will pass by a landslide.
So, you need only 2 more percent to vote yes? With every other gain or improvement in the TA, you would risk that and possibly delay a contract for maybe 2 more years over 2% more? Ok.