Originally Posted by
IrishNJ
Not sure what you mean. Unless something changed Erj side still gets the DC plan so up to 6% pay deposited in retirement account (which was being taken away in the JCBA) plus the match which is up to another 6% in your 401k ... or up to 12% in total.
As regards Smartpref vs Flightline, neither side want to make concessions, just write rules for both and put it in a Jcba - if you bid over from Crj to Erj just know you'll be using smartPref and vice versa
Nobody else has a DC plan. Sorry. Thought that was self explanatory. We are probably not going to get a 'benefit' of effectively 12% in retirement for the ASA side, and no other regional has it except LXJT, AND we have to be the same when it's all said and done. What is your realistic suggestion?
The difference in SmartPref and Fligyline is significant enough that it still essentially creates two separate companies. It won't work long term. I managed people for 20 years before coming here. It will breed contempt, which will make us all weaker as a group.
I want the best we can get, but I also want to leave this place as the best regional around when I eventually go to mainline.