Originally Posted by
SnoJet440
This TA is worse than the rejected TA in every possible way.
Flow through: Rejected TA first 30 every month; minimum 360 a year.
Current TA; 50% or 30 whichever is less; 220 a year.
Profit Sharing: Rejected TA elimination of profit sharing was subject to the same concession by all other AE employess. Current TA has no such stipulation, it just gives up profit sharing.
PBS: Rejected TA pushed any obligation to ratify PBS until the 61st 175 delivery. This placed a financial incentive on the company to place the options here. Current TA delays PBS until the delivery of the 40th 175, thereby removing the incentive to place the options here.
I could go on, but you get the idea. How does this TA become endorsed by the MEC? It is a worse deal than what was rejected by a majority of our pilots and this MEC endorses it!!??
Is $12,500 enough to buy a sucker?
Yea, and when we turn this down and another 20 175s are gone, IF the company even wants to talk about the remainder 20, we will have THAT much less offered next time as we did last time. This is the best deal we can get under these circumstances, at this time.
Then if voted down, things will continue to get uglier here, just as they have for the last couple years, only it may end altogether now. Even those hard core "NO" votes in the MEC and LECs see it, and believe it. There were no obtentions this time. THIS IS IT BABY!
RJ is right! We will need all the luck we can get even if this passes, and things will be much worse if it doesn't.
Arrogance is a personal fault, and we should recognize it before it is our demise. We are right to vote "NO", but we can't win this fight.
One choice will feed my family, and one will not. One choice will not harm my career progression, and one will...
Choose wisely.