Originally Posted by
DALMD88FO
I'm not a "just say no" kind of guy, however I will say no if you touch my profit sharing as part of why I'm getting any kind of raise. If they want to cash in profit sharing after section 3 then I'll be more than happy to take a look at it.
You make the point that the profit sharing check is getting pretty sizable. Well that's because A. the company is making a ton of money and B. we negotiated it and the company turned around and gave it to the rest of the employees. I don't fault them for that. If they hadn't then there very well may have been more unions on property now. They want to correct that and they could unilaterally change, not get rid of, the profit sharing for all but the 13,000 pilots that paid for it. I'm not advocating for that as I like coming to work with happy people and that would surely make an us against them mentality. How do you think that would go and how much would that save the company?
The really funny thing is that evey year, when the PS checks come out, I have an FA ask "Do you guys get PS too?"
I think you mean section 6. And I agree with the majority of this post. However if they come up with a TA that includes a reduction in PS and a pay increase, I'll look at it. It had better be pretty significant in terms of that pay increase, and I will deduct the percentage of pay increase from the loss of PS and make my decision based on that. I told my reps that I would be pretty unhappy if they did negotiate PS down in this, but never say never I guess.