Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Actually according to the reps pay had not been discussed over 10 days ago. It's possible that since then they may have exchanged numbers. I have no idea what Purples comment is about. Pay is often the last section done and is very strait foward. There is no costing or manning issues to try and sort out which is time consuming and often involves subsets of negotiations to agree on costing. Pay rates are simple and you could exchange proposals every 5 minutes if you wanted. It took months to work out the costing on FAR 117 changes. Pay is instant.
While true, a super speedy deal with 9/9/4/4 (best case rumor) which is also rumored to be laced with embedded concessions at all levels including scope and PS reduction makes no sense in that model. In order for that to be the case, we would have to agree to the concessions first without seeing the pay. Its bad enough if we sell back our contract for pay rates, but to agree to the concessions first without even seeing the pay rates would just be unbelievable.