Originally Posted by
Rainbows
I just read the email. I'm seeing them laying the expectations that this is going to be a long protracted fight. There cannot be a dollar figure attached to the work rules, the four days off, the transition conflict, line bidding or anything else that affects the quality of life. Sure, if the company wants to pay me a yearly wage that exceeds $500K a year, I'd entertain the notion, but short of that, I might as well go elsewhere. I'm seeing a whole lot of meeting to schedule more meetings to run around each other at the negotiating table in our future. I didnt see anything positive in this update.
I bet the company is presenting dollar figures for PBS vs. line bidding and transition conflict vs no conflict. They'll want that taken from the overall compensation package and say with those numbers plus x amount of pay and x amount of retirement we will make what Delta, AA, and United make. They know exactly how much the conflict costs them. That's why they didn't honor it and fought it.
This I all a numbers game to them. How can they give us the least amount of compensation and make us work the most. It's exactly what happened in 2010. We gained a little here and there and lost in other places. The current contract was cost neutral for the first 3 years.