Originally Posted by
AtlCSIP
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.
Wait, unless I'm wrong, air Wisconsin, PDT, Horizon, and LXJT have it. Who told you otherwise? Did they have an agenda?
As for pay cuts, it's not just rates. They wanted to decrease our per diem, decrease sick accrual, decrease 401 matching, get rid of our OJI bank, decimate our LTD, increase our cost sharing portion of health benefits. All this while the ASA side didn't take a hit on those things or were brought up. Not to mention some scheduling work rules like losing pay to be released from a DH, check in, assignment windows, ACARS notifications, no dr notes for sick calls, etc, all things that the erj side would take a hit in QOL but the CRJ side didn't. So don't tell us we can't have different contract language for two sides because lack of unity! This HUGE concession from one side will breed lack of unity. So instead of preaching lack of unity. All of us should be demanding that no one takes concessions, that's how you create unity!