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Saabs
I've emailed the NAC about this issue a few weeks back - and of course no response
1. If we get pay parity now (2015), what happens if UAL and DAL get a new contract after the 2015 pay parity, do we get an additional pay parity?
2. Is the 2016 pay parity rates already locked in (the ones in the MOU summary), or would a 2015 Delta pay increase bump the rates up?
3. Why no pay parity for group I pay? 16.29% increase isn't enough
From what I could tell, the proposal to the company does not include parity review. That would be something we'd have to ask for after 2018 (the last year this current proposal addresses). All the current proposal states is current DAL pay rates now, with 3% increases for the next three years. As I said before, that benefits the company because DAL will most certainly get some kind of a pay raise with their new contract, and it could be substantial.
As for the 2016 pay parity, all I've seen is a fixed percentage, which is supposed to be "parity", but even at those rates it doesn't quite match DAL's rates, especially for Group I aircraft. The current MOU also doesn't do anything to adjust first year pay, which we could conceivably be the ONLY major airline in 2019 that pays $40 per hour, which is below even Allegiant and other minor players.
But I believe the actual MOU states that the 2016 pay raise will be based on comparative contractual rates and ASM weighting...so whatever percentage that would produce would be our actual realized pay raise. I think the 16+% was a guestimate.