Originally Posted by
XHooker
Why? This isn't gospel, it's opinion and there are different ways of looking at it. Both companies had banding at the merger announcement, you mentioned DAL bands (industry norm), and it was a part of the CALALPA openers in '08, before the merger. In any event, all we can do is make our desires known to our reps and vote on the next contract, but ascribing some type of unilaterally nefarious motives to our current pay bands is nonsense.
Respectfully disagree.
Its not nonsense. Its fact. Read the SLI hearings. They SPECIFICALLY asked the arbitrators to count CAL 767-400 as a jumbo and UALs 757s as narrowbody
because of pay banding. That right there PROVED why they did it. They were trying to massage the status and category weighting with OUR contract. This was specifically asked at a union meeting where the union LEC rep said "We are doing this for SLI purposes because contracts come and go but SLI lasts forever" which was taped by a Uhire who was in the meeting.
If pay banding is what "DAL" does then why does DAL pay Airbus more than guppy? And DAL certainly pays 757 more than guppy. Also NO AIRLINE bands 747s and 777s with 767s. Except us.
The creative pay banding was an SLI argument supporter, it failed the Status and Category sniff test, and now we have guys getting paid less than they should in the 757, 777, and 747s. So the reasons for the pay banding are moot because they didn't accomplish what was intended.