Originally Posted by
mossimo
That cuts both ways Brother. Perhaps the more important question is what did the rest of the pilot group gain by carving out furloughee longevity via LOA25. You can't take that gain and then turn around and complain about what you are giving up now to right this wrong.
As we all know, LOA25 was an 11th hour deal. The money that was GOING to pay rates for the carved out LOA25 furloughees now had to find a new home in the contract.
Where did it go?
Remember that last bit of money added to the Retro Pay to get it to (IIRC) $400M?
We should be glad that this is in the deal. Otherwise, the Union rightly would be on the hook(remember, the contract dollar amount was already agreed to) and should foot the bill(=special assessment). Painful, NOBODY wants that.