Originally Posted by
spaaks
right, it makes sense for management. They clearly won this battle, if times are good they now have dirt cheap labor, and if times get bad they now have dirt cheap labor that they can pay freeze and move airplanes at will. How is management having all the leverage and power a good thing for the PSA pilots? From my perspective, y'all gave up almost all of your power and leverage in exchange for next to nothing.
The union's thought process was that now we DO have leverage. Since we have in writing that PSA is guaranteed to have at least 30 acft.
If they want to come back to us for say, more planes, then we could negotiate a little more aggressively. They mentioned the fact that staffing could become an issue in the near future and that we could get some improvements to the deal later on to help attract pilots.
Our NC is putting their money where their mouth is on this one as they are right in that "pay cap" area and will immediately feel the effects of this TA.
I think it makes sense.