Originally Posted by
tsquare
What he's gonna find is that it ain't so easy when you are actually faced with that decision for real marbles. Of course, since he's young, he can afford to blow up a contract or two and still recover. If he doesn't get it all, and get it now, he'll complain. But in a few short years when he finds himself farther up the seniority list looking for grand slams instead of incremental gains that would have gotten him to the brass ring already, he'll sing a different song. My question as to that kind of tactic is why? SWA got incrementall gains for years, and all the vocals hold them up... continually... as the gold standard. No home runs... just singles and doubles. But somehow.. we're different. Fire away boys.
T,
I think the reason that they are being held up as the "gold standard" is the fact that they have seen gains. We are still diggin ourselves out of a hole. We took a huge paycut for the paper protection of the "Bankruptcy protection letter". That worked out well and taught me that there really are no morals in business (that and the SERP's taught me that lesson).
I don't expect a homerun, as you put it, but in these times I do expect more than a COLA as a raise each year. These are the times that the union has kept saying "Be patient we will get them next time because the economic environment will be better" If not in this coming contract then that would make us the type of individuals that couldn't get lucky in a Bangkok cathouse with a fist full of $20's.