Originally Posted by
Rainbows
I'm under no assumption we are going to git a industry leading contract even though we are doing industry leading profits but american and united just got big contracts and delta is amendable after ours. If we cant even get close to what they have pay wise, what the heck are we doing this for? This place is gonna be a ghost town with guys leaving, not the old guys but the young ones. We should at least get what delta has for narrow body+ because there going to get much more on theyre next contract.
I think you over estimate attrition resulting from the contractual gains or lack thereof. I wish that were true, but it isn't reality. Guys leave for a multitude of reasons, but I wouldn't count on that as leverage to force management's hand.
The time to go to a legacy, if one wants to, is now. Not after a potential failure of lengthy negotiations. Me personally, I'm done chasing this career. I'll fight to make this place the best place to work that I can, but I'd just assume start a different career entirely than go to another carrier for more money. And I've got more years left till retirement, in theory, than many at NK.
I'd also add that there probably will be some churn near the bottom of the seniority list. That is happening already though and it has nothing to do with a lack of contractual gains. People make moves for myriad reasons and that's OK and expected.