Originally Posted by
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The new Table Talk on Pay is out. Something interesting:
IMHO:
- "Reflective of the changes in the size and profitability of the company over the past few years," means we are making a lot more money.
- "one of the goals of Delta management was to modify the profit sharing program." Because they were paying us a fortune.
- "To reach this TA," meaning to get a TA with the company the NC had to...
- "the MEC agreed to modifications in the formula of profit sharing calculations that converted these modifications to hourly pay." monetize or no deal.
Now over the last few months we were being led to believe DALPA wanted to do that to give us more "guaranteed pay" vs "at-risk pay". But here, it's the company made us, the NC, do it.
Why would the company want to monetize PS if it was a gain for us?
Or maybe it is a gain, it's just a small gain and deep concessions in Section 1, 14 and 23 to get the TA. Then again everyone said pay was not negotiated until the very end, so did we make concessions throughout the PWA only to come up with 8633 and reduced PS at the end?
Is this how bargaining credits work? You throw 6,000 FOs under the bus, demand money in return and they then say nope that only affects 180 so here's 8033?
FTB,
This is the first time you have ever missed the big picture. All delta employees' profit sharing will be changed if we vote this in. This entire TA thing actually saves the company $100M. (I don't know why ALPA crack money guys didn't tell us that). Hey look the delta employees (aka profit centers) are buying their company more planes. (Which will be flown by the lowest bidder in delta colors cause the MEC chairman said they could).
Damn, why do I feel like this is how the former Kimberly Clark corporate flight department (Midwest express) arm of Alpa worked just prior to the airline shutting down.
Handshakes and back slaps all around.