Originally Posted by
Squallrider
Was our last agreement revolutionary? Absolutely not, but it wasn't concessionary.
Truly not picking on you or trying to call you out. But do you really believe your statement above? I felt it was concessionary when we voted it in, but hindsight now shows me that it was one of the worse things we could do.
I'll allow you to counter on the gains we realized, while I will play the devils advocate and point out which parts of our agreement (which I like that you use that word instead of contract) that I felt were lacking.
Training seat locks - Huge cost savings for company. Nothing gained for the pilots
1 year contract - Yeah that worked out awesome for us. I'm sure we will get retro pay. Penalties should have been included for not reaching agreement at the end of the year contract. We were played hard with this one.
E175 rate - Call this a wash. Not enough money for the seats, but soft time paid at this rate. So we gained something back for the horrible BHO override that we got screwed with years ago.
EMB raise - How can I forget this. We FINALLY paid the Bro guys. Please don't tell me that you think the company didn't know this plane was going away. If there was ever a nail in the coffin for the 120, the pay raise was it.
COLA - Oh wait, there wasn't a COLA.
2 Golden Days - Oh yes, 2 more unpaid days that will now screw my bid up because I still have to have 88 hours awarded in PBS. I guess it does make it so I can at least get 11 days off in a month.
Sorry I don't feel the uniform money or passport is worth much. We lost that money with our 1%. I'd love to hear the gains you felt we made, but in my book our agreement was concessionary.