Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Ok, here is a quick list why this turd should be rejected. Feel free to ad to it:
1. Credit Suisse article showing its actually putting money in the company's pocket every year
2. Loss of Profit Sharing/buying our own raise. What's the company's predicted profit for the next three years? Also tweaking how PS is calculated will lower the amount
3. 3.b.4 will surely be triggered again and we will probably get around a 3% raise (a guess on my part)
4. 75% of LCA trips pulled out affects every FO in that category not just 180
5. More large RJ to DCI
6. JV metric changed to block hours from EASK's and lowered.
7. Only 1% to DC plan and that not until 2017
8. 5 to 10 cents more on per diem, puhleeze
9. Sick leave debacle. Third party verification? Not good if true
10. Vacation and training only adding 15 minutes a day?
11. New hire training freeze now 24 months? Throw the new hire under the bus
These off the top of my head......
Denny
Great list Denny! That pretty much summed up what I wrote to my reps yesterday. I really cannot fathom these concessions given the current negotiating environment. In any event, it is time now to roll the bones with the membership vote... Hopefully, that will stem the lemming like rush over the (concession) cliff.
In the alternative (referring to that mystical NMB land that time forgot), I believe management needs force them to crack first. I think more pilots are comfortable (relatively speaking when considering this POS) under current conditions. Management, with their fleet plan diversity, staffing issues, outsourcing imperatives, outside investor pressure and looming pilot retirements, just to name a few, have way too many irons in the fire to stand pat - they'll need to make a deal. Just my view from the cheap seats - back to lurk only mode.