Originally Posted by
morecowbell
The company is on the verge of presenting the counter proposal for compensation, and apparently Scott Kirby says he will throw us "industry leading" pay, but no profit sharing.
How can our pay be industry leading without profit sharing. This is complete crap. Scott...keep dreaming you big goon. Give us more per hour pay, yet every year Delta still takes home more with the addition of profit sharing to the bottom line? Show me increased hourly pay and profit sharing and I'll show you industry leading pay.
Also, seems he is more then willing to fall back on the arbitrated JCBA agreement if we cant come to terms according to his remarks at the Morgan Stanley Conference this past week.
And the biggest concern (at least it should be to the bottom 75% of us) is the company's request for scope concessions.
In other words, we really don't get industry leading pay as it comes with an offsetting price. For them, it's essentially a "cost-neutral" position which if rejected will keep them looking like the generous good guys and the pilots unreasonable. He's certainly NOT offering an industry leading "package" (comparable to Delta), but ONE industry leading aspect cancelled out by a concession.
The question then is, does the APA leadership's more senior majority rationalize giving up scope issues that really won't touch them for more $$$ ?
If Parker and Kirby are going to make good on their commitment to the pilots, they need to do so without any fine print, asterisks or trade-offs. This is simply the same old game of taking advantage of labor with dubious, veiled tactics to obtain advantages at their expense. Of course, since all we can do is ask (they said no
), little chance is there of matching Delta.