You account for profit sharing as income, but that's not the question. The question is: How do you cost out profit sharing in a Section 6 negotiations? The answer is that you cannot cost out profit sharing because the amount of any future corporate profit is unknowable.

Any attempt by management at tying profit sharing to compensation would not pass NMB scrutiny due to the impossibility of costing it. Funding compensation increases by agreeing to decreases in profit sharing percentages could only happen if our union advocates for it. Thus the renaming of profit sharing as "at risk compensation" by our union and repeated here on APC. Denigrating profit sharing is clearly a key DALPA priority.

Profit sharing isn't tied to other contractual compensation. It can only be tied if our own Union pushes for it.

Carl