Originally Posted by
Gearjerk
Wow PD. You have it all figured out. That's exactly what happened. "The negotiators were shown confidential pie charts, & swindled over the company's use of some $5 buzz words." (No offense Buzzpat.)
The very reason why we only received an 4/8.5/3/3 raise.
Dude, why did we need any negotiators at all last time. You could've done it single-handedly!!
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Gearjerk,
While I don't agree, with purple, that we could have gotten 25% each year pay raises, I do believe we should have gotten much more.
Giving back a part of our profit sharing, that we already paid once for in letter 51, was a real special kind of stupid. The only reason the company wanted that back was so they could go to the other employee groups and take it from them. That is their problem not ours. To say that we would have gotten even less of percentage raises than 3% the last two years without giving it back is rich to say the least.
This has been the same cycle for the almost 14 years I've been here. It's time to negotiate, well it's time to manufacture some immediate reason the company needs something or else we lose.
My bet for the 2015 negotiations is widebody orders. They will need relief from FAR 117, JV, code share or large RJ's and the carrot will be a widebody order that will make every pilot on the seniority list salivate.
Just my take/opinion