Originally Posted by
IrishNJ
I don't see PBS as a sticking point, we just get a JCBA that has SmartPref PBS if you fly an ERJ and Flightline for the CRJ?
However, how do you solve ERJ guys getting a pay cut like in the JCBA that was voted down while the CRJ guys getting a raise? That sort of thing just wont cut it.
(and if you lose up to 6% [DC Plan] of your pay that goes in to your retirement like ERJ guys were going to lose that is most certainly a PAY cut even if you want to call it a benefit cut.)
You can't have both SmaftPref and Flightline on property since the work rules don't work the same with both. Realistically, for unity, it has to be the same, which means one or the other.
I agree about the DC plan, but nobody has it anymore, so is it worth fighting for, and potentially going to arbitration over, especially if we get some improvements elsewhere. I would love to get a DC plan, but I don't think it will happen, so at what point do we negotiate something in exchange? Maybe even a buy out for those in it.
I can't speak on the pay disparity because I don't know the specifics of the ERJ side. I don't think any regular pilot on either side should take a pay cut, but that's a broad brush approach to a complicated topic.