Originally Posted by
ghilis101
8/.26/3/3 with PS factored in. Yes Bender, you give up 8 percent now, and then the contractually triggered industry raises get you 3 percent (or more) depending on how UAL shakes out. But you keep at minimum 20 percent PS year over year (yes we all know unless another tragic event happens, in that case we're probably getting the company to beg for pay cuts anyway), but with profits the way theyre trending it could be 25 percent in PS.
Yes you get a raise in this TA. Im not arguing the money portion. Im more about the QOL givebacks, that do in fact have monetary impact.
I also don't want you to think that a no vote means its going to the NMB. You will get a counteroffer probably within 30 to 60 days in the form of either giving us some of our QOL provisions back, or sweetening the pot with higher pay. I hope we negotiate the former with the latter together, but that depends on how strong of a no vote we get. If they only have to change lets say 5 percent of the no votes to yes votes it will be a little tougher to bargain.
You know the interesting thing is if you adjust our Jan 2008 rates for inflation and compare to todays rate for say the A320A, it's a 41% raise in comparison but after inflation it's 28%. Divide it over 7 years and you get 6% pre inflation and 4% post inflation. That puts inflation more around 2%.
So wouldn't it be reasonable to believe that 8/6/3/3 become 6/4/1/1 and then takeout PS and 6/-2/1/1 by 2018?