Originally Posted by
Woofers
I agree. Some are obsessed with my original post because it provides a different point of view. I didn't mean for them to be drawn into it like one of those spinning pinwheel vortex things. Yet here we are, 15 pages later....
But having said that, what are your better ideas? I asked earlier, no one has wanted to answer. Profit sharing intact, same raise? Or 20% raise, ps intact, status quo on sick and LCA? Ideas? Or just whining with numbers to back the whining up? Seriously, what do you want to extract -exactly- if this is voted down?
The general consensus is that most pilots would live with, but not necessarily be thrilled with, the pay raise IF the PS scheme was kept as is, as well as everything else. Essentially a contract extension with pay raises. There is no reason to give any work rules or scope away when the company is already the most profitable it has ever been. Too much has been given over the past 15 years and the company promised restoration when times were better. We have to stop feeling like we owe something. I would be willing to consider some givebacks if our givebacks were somehow tied to executive givebacks. But cutting our PS to fund executive bonuses when they've doubled their pay in the past few years? Which group here do you see abusing their relationship?
Now with that being said, what we would have loved to see is min calendar day, extra week of vacation, real training and vacation pay at 5:15 or more, etc