Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

They can make all the estimates they wish, but it won't be counted by the NMB in this Section 6 process. It can't be counted because the foundation of profit sharing is future profits...which are unknowable.



Not with the NMB they won't. If it gets rolled into the overall pie, it will be because our union agrees to this concession that would never be tolerated by the NMB's costing analysis.



Completely incorrect. Pay rates and profit sharing are only connected historically. They cannot be proportional in any way when negotiating a Section 6 contract because Section 6 deals with negotiating future items.



Nobody is calling profit sharing a free lunch. Profit sharing simply has no quantifying capability in Section 6.

Carl