Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Since profit sharing has never really been a issue on any contract I doubt Carl really knows. I do know how the company will present it. We will make counter arguments and the board will decide. I would be very surprised if they did not give it some weight.
Again fud, it's not just profit sharing. It's ANY ITEM that cannot be costed out into the future. ANY ITEM. If it can't be costed, the NMB will NOT allow that item to be used as a means to drag out negotiations or to get an impasse declared. The NMB will strike it from consideration and status quo would prevail.
No different than us offering to allow future pay rates to be to tied to the CPI, then claim a billion dollar per year credit for it and demanding the billion back in work rules. The NMB would say the billion dollar credit is mythical because we can't know what the CPI is going to be in future years.
NMB involvement in Section 6 is about negotiating future contractual items that can be accurately costed.
Carl