Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
No question about that Denny, but I don't think that was his point. His point was the amount by which you exceed the bar during pattern bargaining. UAL exceeded your bar by a large amount in their contract. DALPA only exceeded UAL's bar by a very small fraction in their 2000 contract.
Carl
Ah, but again, if you go back one more step, I believe the 3.B.6 negotiations exceeded theirs by quite a bit. United's new contract pay scale was for all aircraft while our 3.B.6 was only for two. We did have to wait for the 2001 contract to raise all aircraft types. If I remember correctly, at the time of our 2000/2001 negotiations, no one else was real close to either United or Delta's 3.B.6 rates. We needed more help.
I'm not going to get into the DPA/DALPA discussion. Let's face it, no one is going to change anyone's mind on APC. However, I do want to try and keep the facts straight in the discussion.!
Denny