Originally Posted by
ERflyer
Everyone else is focused on the rates and has had the mantra C2004 plus inflation. This contract with the pay rate increase plus profit sharing based on projected profits for 2017 gives us that.
Plus with the projected pay rates there is downside protection. This contract has improvements and concessions in other areas which are being debated.
It's about the money as well as QOL.
As said above - your money for others' QOL (and money).
You and the previously-mentioned 747A are an example of what goes wrong in unions: eventually, it changes from "What can we use our unity to achieve for us?" to "What can I use our union to achieve for me?"
When that happens, the union crumbles into division and ineffectiveness.
Still, some will be just as happy when that happens, because they'll be at the top of the pile of rubble rather than underneath it.