Originally Posted by
wmichflyer
From what I've been hearing, the bonus will go away and we'll get an hourly increase. The numbers that have been floated will be a pay cut for anyone crediting less than 85 hours a month.
Youve boiled that down wrong. Yes the union wants the retention turned into pay rates. I suppose people not on the property yet might see it as pay cut (for a job they don't have yet) thankfully the new hires that just got in and all future ones get a giant sign on bonus.
The union is just trying to make sure everyone here, now, gets a true raise. Management wants to sucker pilots in with big first year bonuses, and hope they won't think about 2 years down the line, and historically that works.
No one in the union is trying to screw you.