Originally Posted by
JoeyMeatballs
The more I think about the more I think some of us are being pretty harsh. Comparing our current rates to the recently ratified legacy rates is like comparing a 2015 corvette ZO6 to a early 2000s C5 ZO6. CALS 1st year rate was $29/hr when our current contract was signed.
Patience everyone, pattern bargaining remember
Maybe a better analogy for those who have no clue what letters like C5 and ZO6 mean, it's like an IPhone 1 compared to an IPhone 6
This is exactly right. As recent as a year and a half ago I was jumpseating on America west and the pilots were saying how our pay scale was better than theirs and way better than the east.
Not to diminish the sense of urgency in getting some while the get is getting got industry wide, doe.