Originally Posted by
Trip7
Because negotiations is not about what you think you deserve, it's what you can negotiate. If a professional negotiator says we've extracted maximum value, and I see all my colleagues around me(FDX/SWA/UPS) getting stomped on, I believe him!
Telling a professional negotiator you believe we can get 15-20% ahead is like a pax coming to your airplane after a wind shear related diversion and stating the weather isn't so bad you could have made it!
I'm sorry I couldn't be more specific about 3 years down the road. I truly apologize.
Please recall section 3.B.4 will continue to give us pay raises aligned with American and United... about 3% per year through 2018.
And we get to keep our LCA trip drops, and our current profit sharing (for all employees), and our SCOPE (which they are not in compliance with and more grievances to come)
The threat of being parked by the NMB is just a scare tactic...
What harm is there in shooting this thing down, or being parked by the NMB?