Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Exactly, cutting pay or making it neutral would be unconscionable but somehow QOL is not viewed equally. We are selling QOL for pay. I think that is shameful. Obviously I'm in the minority. The reverse would never be true.
Whose to say we are not taking less of a pay raise to preserve QOL items? IMO more pay is a huge QOL addition. You don't seem to take that into account in any of your posts.
Even if this were voted down pay rates are likely to increase. There are no provisions for increased QOL in our current PWA. Holding on to the current QOL standard is now not even a consideration while not getting a pay raise was never even a remote possibility. I get the fervor over pay rates but I'm saddened it comes at the expense of QOL items.
I refer you to what I said above about pay being a big addition to QOL.
We will not be able to make this stand in the next contract negotiations given the increasing productivity demands we will see with upcoming retirements.
We are already in the big productivity demand era and it won't be ending until way after I'm gone (2023).
QOL comes in all shapes and sizes. IIRC, when I said this pay raise would allow a pilot to drop a trip every other month (conservatively) and make the same money as s/he did last year, you said that was exactly your plan. IMO that is by far the biggest QOL gain that dwarfs any QOL losses.
Denny