Originally Posted by
Oberon
Do you think labor peace alone is worth 38% or are other areas of leverage worth something and labor peace brings us up to 38%? How much do you think labor peace is worth?
I think labor peace plus the rest of the leverage spectrum can achieve this. Not just labor peace alone.
Originally Posted by
Oberon
Does anyone know what our current contract costs? It would be interesting to estimate a cost for certain items. For instance if we think labor peace is worth 10% we could say it is worth $xxx million. I think that would be useful in determining how reasonable one's position is.
The last I saw, our wages and salaries accounted for about 1.5 billion of an overall 2.5 billion dollar contract. A 38% increase in pay on day one would add 570 million in costs to Delta. Very reasonable in my opinion given the role we play and continue to play in achieving our massive profits.
Originally Posted by
Oberon
I'm not picking on you Carl. 38% is pretty specific so you must have put some thought into it. I'm interested in your cost projections. 38% sounds pretty good. How do we get there?
Above represents my thoughts as to the why of 38%. How we get there is to employ the same process DALPA used to stop the DPA. Set the object, develop the strategy, relentlessly employ the tactics.
Carl