Originally Posted by
Timbo
Yup. Why anyone in the bottom half of the seniority list would vote Yes to this is beyond me. I'm in the highest paying category, I'd reap the biggest reward with the 8% raise and the LCA won't affect me at all. I'm voting NO because I do not believe we got all we could get out of a company that is going to make more in this quarter than the entire value of this TA over 3 years!
We were raped in bankruptcy, there is no other word for it. We lost 42% of our pay, many of our QOL benefits, and all of our retirement. About 1400 guys were furloughed. Many guys lost their houses and/or got divorces and there were 8 suicides. If you weren't here for all of that, I can see where you might not be as PO'd as the rest of us who had to live through that.
The only reason we got Profit Sharing in the first place was due to the Billions we gave the company in making those sacrifices.
We have been slowly clawing our way back ever since then, but as you saw in 2012, and now in this POS TA, our MEC is constantly trading away stuff we have already negotiated for, for pittance raises of 3%. We are still today, 18% BELOW our 2004 pay rates, AND our Retirements are severely underfunded!
This company is now making BILLIONS! Some of that BILLIONS is OUR RETIREMET money and OUR PAY CUTS and the JOBS LOST with PBS bidding and the rest of us flying 87-92 hours a month!
GIVE US BACK OUR MONEY FIRST!
Then you can "Reward the Shareholders".
Thank you Timbo! Keep sounding the trumpets. I have been less than inspired from most captains I've talk to. It's 8%!...not even!! Taken from other benefits. When did we become such a weak group willing to sell our souls for a nickel. I really feel yes voters are risking a more hostile environment on the property between pilots. The FOs are being sold down the river with this TA.
I hope I'm wrong and this group shows me something. Just remember, what goes around, comes around. How important will retirement issues be to my group in future contracts?!? Medical, pass privileges etc...Our negotiators were played and worse the MEC put this divisive BS before us. We are all in this together. Show MGT and our union we are above this BS.