Originally Posted by
Sluggo_63
Again, if Delta tried to get rid of or significantly diminish their profit sharing and the Delta pilots fought that off successfully, that would be a...miserable failure?
Oh good lord... If the price is right elsewhere, I'm sure they'd give up part of it. Ask them...
To my knowledge, while the hourly compensation was significantly increased, they lost badly in this area. The pilots didn't see the value in the TA.
As I tried to tell you before, we didn't improve many areas of our contract. So what? Were these real cornerstone items? Retirement was, remember that? Probably not...
Our retirement is an extremely important piece of our contract. Huge. I hope to live a long life after Fedex. While it's easy to overlook the future, it will be there before you know it.
We got 3% raises. After 9 years. In an outstanding negotiating environment. Retirement was an end game negotiating topic and we let them go with "it's our line in the sand". We also ran out of money. I'd say that's a fail...