Originally Posted by
Nevets
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!
Well, I just spoke with an Air Whiskey captain, and they don't have a DC plan. I'm not going to waste time verifying any more information from you since, unfortunately, your credibility just took a nose dive.
My opinion is that your approach, based on your last paragraph, breeds dissension and ultimately disaster. You haven't provided a potential solution. You've just complained about a number of things we all didn't like about the last TA. Negotiations mean give and take. There are items we will have to concede in an effort to make overall pay and quality of life better for everyone. Unfortunately, that is reality.