Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
Don't you remember? It was a couple of months ago. Delta put out some sort of infomercial saying that its non-union employees were back to what they were making prior to BK. A number of posters here (you included, as I recall) read that to mean that they were back to what they were making before the pay cuts began in 2001. Meanwhile, I was trying to point out that Lee had made a similarly meaningless statement with respect to our pay.
I think I vaguely remember that. I also think I vaguely remember your post as you referenced above. I didn't respond to it because I thought it was such an obviously ridiculous point that it didn't even need to be countered. Here's why...
As I recall, the rest of the employees didn't take anything like a 32.5% pay cut prior to BK. For them to get back to their "pre-BK" pay would be significant restoration... for them. For us to get back to our "pre-BK" pay is extremely little progress toward restoration. In fact, we're still not even there yet. In terms of buying power, our pay rates are currently at a 34% pay cut. In actual numbers, it's something around a 20% pay cut.
How do the other employees compare? I don't know exactly, and I don't really care.