Originally Posted by
snippercr
Nope. The only reason to increase FO pay is to attract new hires. At all levels of Envoy and AAG they are convinced that the flow will attract new hires and thus why pay them more. Besides, pay increases would need to change the contracts and as Doug says... a deal is a deal.
I would expect to see so on bonuses increased again jn the next 6-12 months and then again in a similar time frame.
Basically this... heard a rumor here at PSA from one of our VPs that the company went to AAG and asked for some leeway in negotiating with the union (read: they wanted to increase pay to attract new hires) and they pretty much heard crickets from AAG on the issue. If one wholly owned gets a more attractive pay package, the other two are going to want something similar. I think it will be a matter of AAG waiting for all 3 of their wholly-owneds to have a hard time staffing before something is done. And even then, I would expect bonuses, not permanent contract improvements.