Originally Posted by
disillusioned
It's possible I misunderstood about the rate. It may have been like you mentioned about taking concessions in order to get the flying. Like I said, this person was from SGU where pilots that want to have QOL type items are thought to be greedy and unions that don't allow them to have their way with pilots are the devil.
The main gist of the conversation was XJT doesn't want to play nice so we just won't worry about bidding for my flying on that side. I did my part to let them know what the shenanigans they played with pilots did for morale. Surprisingly enough, I don't think they understood.
No doubt in my mind that they are able to extract 16% more out of us with our work rules (or lack thereof). Vacation rules alone would be at least 5%. Again, we would be so much stronger with 7,000 united voices.
They specifically wanted a 4% pay rate cut, PBS implementation, elimination of the B fund, and 4% worth of pay cuts in work rule concessions. They said that PBS and our B fund were each worth 4% (their numbers). That's how they wanted us to get to 16%. But the 16% was before we took a 7% concession and the PBS we are currently working to implement (supposedly cost neutral to the pilots).