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.
Instant? You are talking about negotiations for a CBA of a very large pilot group. I spend more time negotiating a car purchase than that.
10 days to cut a deal on pay rates 7 months prior to the amendable date? You have got to get out of the fixed size of the pie mentality. The size of the pie IS what we are negotiating, and it is anything but fixed. After that, ALPA sets apportionment and the company cares a lot less about that. THE PIE IS AS BIG AS IT HAS BEEN IN 20 YEARS!
this one better be pretty good if we are moving that fast.