Originally Posted by
SkylineAviation
Honest question, I read a lot of people here defending PSA and its current contract saying how much money you make and how things are good because of upwards progression, pay, QOL, security, etc, etc. If that's all true why does management want to break the contract of other regional's, and the model being PSA and/or Pinnacle? Management specifically uses the names of the those two companies in how they want to arrange and model our contracts to mirror yours.
Now it's obvious why they all want the costs of Pinnacle, but PSA is mentioned in the same breath. The reason why Envoy is having the problems they are having is because of the cost structure PSA has, due to the contract you recently voted in. That comes right from management and our MEC. I would argue that Envoy captains make was much as anyone at PSA or elsewhere especially when scheduling is offering 1.5 on a regular basis, not to mention the unblocking of all OT for FO's and captians.
I'm not trying to start a whole new war between PSA and Envoy, but if your contract is NOT concessionary why would management want to make our contracts like yours? And to tell you the truth I don't know a lot about your contract so I really am asking a serious question.
No one has anything like we have in the entire industry. They literally had NO CLUE how much our scheduling section was going to cost them last summer when the negotiations for our most recent TA were getting started. It's not just pay either. They'll need more staff.
They are just now realizing what kind of cost this thing really is.
When management across the industry look at PSA's "cost structure" they see one thing: Pay caps.
They are blind to everything else because they are convinced that this is the holy grail that is going to save the regional model. In the case of Pinnacle they may have something. Not so with PSA.
Email your negotiators and tell them to get a copy and paste of PSA's scheduling section. I bet it's a non-starter.