Originally Posted by
Southerndog
So if this is our time to fight, when does it begin? The company is being absolutly ridiculous by mentioning that we need to give stuff so they can balance out paying us what they owe us per LOA 67, suggesting that its cause by challenging economic conditions. The union is pretty silent lately (shocker I know). Still waiting for a game plan........ something......anything. The company will drag their feet for years..... then mediation.... then we must deny Arbitration and strike. There is no other path to getting industry average compensation.
One of the benefits of the concessions that we negotiated is that the work rules were largely (completely?) untouched, and everything else had snapbacks. That leaves us not much besides pay rates to claw back. The company is dragging their feet on the LOA 67 language because that is the biggest pain point for us. With a 20%-30% pay increase, we'd have much less inclination to vote yes on a TA unless it had a substantial improvement from that level.
FWIW, my concessionary pay rate was more than the USAir A330 captains were getting, for quite a while.