Originally Posted by
JamesBond
$20 an hour more for an RJ than what was obtained at a major carrier.
You lurkers should really let this sink in a minute. This was not in 1970. This was five..... years.... ago....... Realize what guys like Jerry and Purple Drank are doing here. Jerry is all about the failure of dALPA. All about the failure of YOUR union. PD is right there with him. Sign that DPA card, and weaken our stance, our unity and our ability to get a better deal. The company sees this. When they see that you sign a card for alternate bargaining agents, they dig in harder because they see fraction. "We must all hang together or surely we will all hang separately" That phrase was true then and it is true now.
DPA is poison.
Agree 100%. DPA type philosophy will result in the same path the Republican Party on, Path to being obsolete and irrelevant. This is what happens when you continually use emotion, repetitive rhetoric and statements that lack any math, reason, or analytical thinking(SWA Contract=8000 jobs, we'll have a new TA in 48 hours if rejected etc)
Originally Posted by
JamesBond
That's a mistake. I know it is a process, but this is the time to make that happen. We should set the bar on that one.
Then in subsequent contracts we can get to a rational pay scheme.
IMO getting 7ER banded this contract would be impossible unless we take a Cargo carrier type hit to the top rates like UPS and FedEx which pay their largest jets below UAL top rate.
I would prefer to keep the pay structure of the other Legacies and just band the 330 and 765. I think it's much more attainable and our 330 fleet is growimg rapidly.