Originally Posted by
TED74
Fully expect to be asked to fly more. But I don't buy that only a 5 percent raise would have been accepted as the best they could negotiate 6 months before the amenable date - call me an optimist. Sounds like trying to lower expectations so 9% sounds more palatable (with 20-40% being my personal expectation depending on other variables).
If you took my little jab as a serious rumor (isn't that an oxymoron?) then we are all doomed.
I would expect to see somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% initial increase and like 5%/yr there after. BUT I bet they try to oust the profit sharing or at least increase the profit threshold where we are paid the higher percentage. Either way you look at it 1) higher pay rates % lower profit sharing or 2) lower pay rate increase & more profit sharing, the company will probably be paying out the same $$.
It will be interesting to see the TA. If it is substandard to our expectations I hope the members throw it back to the MEC by a huge margin. I myself am 1 for 3 on voting yes over the last decade.
BD