Originally Posted by
sab1250
According to the guys at the union meeting I attended last month, the company has never asked for Pref Bid. It's never even been brought up during negotiations. Apparently it takes 2-3 years for a company to get their money back when implementing pref bid. Would lead me to believe these guys don't plan on being around much longer.
Interesting. I was pretty surprised that they didn't have pref bid in that first "proposal" they gave us a while back. I suppose if there is a hefty cost to implement pbs, they probably figure they can get rid of vacation drop or slide with contract language instead of going pbs.