Originally Posted by
psw757
I just don't see how we ever get back the 25-30k maybe more lost for 2015 depending on Los and the 4-8k every single year until our next contract not including all the additional money in our DC plans over the next several years. Additionally all the new hires in 2015 stand to lose about 30k with the proposed increase to approx $77/hr. I thought I heard 500 plus new hires.
2018 is a long way away and any kind of major world unrest, health epidemic etc..... You can kiss your industry leading contract bye bye...
Take the money while you can get it because it ain't gonna last, I can guarantee that!
It's trading one thing for another. In the case of the MTA, keeping the Green book provisions and living up to the MOU pay that we as a group accepted. Parker said if AAG was profitable (and baby, you ain't seen NOTHING yet), we'd get Delta pay rates. He left out about the part of buying them with concessions elsewhere.
At some point, you have to stop prostituting yourself to people like that or they'll always see you as a prostitute. If we take just any deal, we'll still be streetwalkers in 2020 and I'd rather show up a year earlier sans sleazy mini-dress, pocket purse and shaved legs. I understand that some don't care and you seem to among them. That's your choice, not mine. As it stands now, the fact is the BOD is divided in the majority to not just accept what's on the table so far and punt to the membership. It's ironic that a certain self-appointed "road warrior" here's own reps (US Airways East) are among the most adamant in their stance against Parker (regardless of their motives) and if it weren't for those reps (which I agree with), then the weaker APA would have already kicked what's there to us. It's ironic because it's he that blames the APA for this when he really should look at his own guys. But I digress into attempting to understand the illogically absurd and my apologies.........
Anyhoo, I'm for a deal, but not one that doesn't better recognize our worth and this airlines future, especially with the pilots efforts and leadership as a major factor. It's simply selling yourself short. 2018 isn't that long (especially when our pay will be MORE then UAL's in 12 months) as our strategic bankruptcy was entered 3 years ago in the opposite. Time flies when you're old. I'm not going to trade a 1 year bribe (and a fictitious one at that) for long-term advantage or principle. I hope the BOD doesn't either. I think the can cannot be kicked past Thursday and APA will either have to **** or get off the pot. Whether Parker flushes the toilet at that point (proffer arbitration) is up to him, but if he does, I think the smell will actually improve over time.
