Originally Posted by
FourPutt
I'll take the PSA contract with critical pay over the 04 LXJT contract I worked under for many years for the schedule flexibility and soft time pay. You guys need to relax and have some patience, this arbitration was always going to take a while due to the magnitude of how much it costs the company. In the meantime stop voting for politicians that are anti labor and anti union so we can make legislative changes to the RLA that do not allow companies to get away with this stuff.
In my opinion it 90% likely we will never have critical pay in the same form it was in pre-October 14. Same with the chances of back pay.
I think the best situation for the pilot group and company is negotiating for 150% SDO with a 4-hour min day in exchange for eliminating critical. We would also have to get stronger language on reserve buffers. That is only my opinion. A lot of hard liners would probably disagree.