My crystal ball for C2015 has this on the company's wish list:
1. Sick time revamp-they want a do over and are not happy with the 100 hours unverified.
2. SDP, CDO's, Illegals or what ever you want to call them. If we give this up it dilutes the 5+15 we just negotiated when they build them into rotations instead of a 30 hour layover.
3. Profit sharing- wall street doesn't like the size of the check now a days so they will try and pull a 1-1 on the payrates. If we give it up for rates then it needs to be after we negotiate the original rates then maybe we will think about it..not.
4. Pay banding or longer freezes. I know it's been a long time since we've seen this much training activity but the company really doesn't like it when we jump from seat to seat when the pipelines are full.

What I hope DALPA's wish list includes:
1. Pay rates negotiated without regard to losing profit sharing.
2. Another week of vacation.
3. A paid APD each year
4. Sick time remains the same. It's not great but we can live with it.
5. No SDP's
6. No pay banding
7. Per diem goes to joint travel regs (more money for expensive cities)
8. Uniform allowance (DALPA said we need to find ways to bulk up pay without bulking up the pay rates too much)
9. Dry cleaning allowance.