Originally Posted by
newKnow
Our TA has a lot of concessions. (Profit sharing, scope, sick leave usage, seat locks, etc.)
Did you guys/gals have a lot of concessions in your new contract, too? If so, what were they?
Thanks.
Originally Posted by
Monkeyfly
Our contract had concessions in it. But, remember, it was a merger contract. UA vs. CO vs. MGT vs. NMB. Yours is not this, not even close!
The biggest concession, in my view, was scope. From 70 to 76 seaters. Which we were forced to take by the NMB because Delta took that concession. A lot of the other things I see as concessions had to do with merging. This limited our leverage severely. If you guys can't get an awesome contract now, no one will.
Monkey is right, a JCBA vs. CBA are two different animals.
The UPA provided many QOL improvements for the LCAL side, while giving the LUAL side a bigger pay bump. We conceded an increase in gauge for UAX from 70 to 76 seats because we were patterning off you guys (thanks BTW:roll eyes
. However, we also closed up a lot of loopholes in scope and made the UAX footprint smaller while growing mainline, much like you guys did.
WRT your TA, the increase of 25 76 seaters for the parking of 50 50 seaters lowering the cap to 425 from 450 is good, however, the regionals are getting drained as the big 3 hire 100+ per month each so I think you guys are doing management a big favor with this. Also, we go into section 6 in less than a year and I know our management team are drooling over more 70/76 seaters since they are already up against the cap. We didn't get 717's like you guys so management is stuck at 255 70/76 seaters.