Originally Posted by UGBSM

To Council 44:

Pay: 8/0/3/3 is insufficient.

Profit Sharing: We said don’t touch profit sharing. How much clearer could we be?

Work Rules: Traded away FO OE trips for the few for other things for the many. I get it.

Scope: Why allow more RJ70/76s to reduce RJ50s and buy E190s? RJ 50s are going away anyway and the company can buy E190s anyway. They can also raise the payrates on those E190s to something more reasonable via LOA. The company has already indicated the current E190 rate is undesirable.
EASK convert to block hours = goodbye $30m grievance settlements for future noncompliance

Benefits: No more voluntary verification to protect unverified sick time. That is the real key and you know it. Big fail.


Fear of a rejected TA? Not buying it this time.

Better company offer in the near term? Probably not. When SWA, FDX, and UPS settle their contracts we will be next in line to pattern bargain up. Thats what the NMB will see. This TA is so disappointing I’d rather just keep the one we have for now.

In the meantime, yes, rearrange the deck chairs. Forget using negotiating capital to buy E190s and 737s. Negotiate an industry leading sick bank like everyone else has, or a PTO system like our own FAs have. And negotiate pay raises retroactive to the amendable date. We’ve had retro pay before and it had better be part of an extended negotiation.