Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
Sparkler wants you to believe that it doesn't matter because your max pay rate increase will be unaffected by whether the company is on the hook for potential PS.
It's not a belief, it simply is. Potential pay rate increases are able to be costed down to the dollar. Potential profit sharing cannot be quantified because you only know the agreed to percentage...not the future profit by which you would multiply that percentage. As far as the NMB is concerned during Section 6, pay rates are not tied to profit sharing in any way.
Originally Posted by
SharpestTool
IOW, there is no cost associated with potential PS. That is pure fantasy.
I never said there is no cost associated with potential profit sharing. I've said you cannot know what that cost will be. If you cannot know, you cannot cost. If you cannot cost, the NMB will not consider it as a positive or a negative. They will simply dismiss it from consideration as a final road block to an agreement.
Carl