Originally Posted by
Hilltopper89
I've only been 121 for a less than 3 years so take this with several grains of salt, but I agree with you and am anxious to see management simply comply with the current contract. We need to negotiate while we are seeing record profits. From what I understand, adjusted for inflation, we're still not even close to pre-9/11 pay rates (not that pay is everything...but it certainly makes dealing with other issues easier). I agree with Probe to some extent and would like to see what pay rates they're offering.
Guys/ladies who have lived through the past 10-20 years have a much better perspective on it than I. I tend to defer to their opinions while adding my own. The fact that most oppose anything regarding an extension speaks volumes to me.
Indeed, money isn't everything. But C2000's defined benefit was a hell of a deal, and so was "vacation override".
The latter meaning, you can NEVER get the time back you spent at work, away from the family, hobbies, passions, whatever. Vacation override gave a metric crap ton of that.