Originally Posted by
Hank Kingsley
Sick leave analysis and the amount of literature the company is producing may the idea of the industrial psychologist. It distracts and is meant to muddy the water. While we should be targeting restoration, we're talking about sick leave.
20% behind our old pay rates with NO pension, vacation and training pay need to be improved, DC percentage. Too many things to list, but sick leave is pushed to the forefront. Simply put, no concessions and restore the contract PLUS.
Exactly. In negotiations, the company needs to find some leverage. With huge earnings, falling fuel prices, $6 Billion in stock buybacks, they have NO LEVERAGE! So, what do they do? They invent some.
Even though we are the ONLY major airline that has a Use it or Lose it sick leave policy, and there really is No Way to measure our use against any other carrier with a bank system, THAT is what they want us to focus on. Not the fact that we are still being paid 18% LESS than in 2004, or that we still have very little in the way of a retirement plan, compared to the value of our 60% FAE DB plan value.
How many flights have they had to cancel because of sick pilots? None? And they are making how much money?
Well I guess sick leave usage isn't really a problem at all, is it?
