Originally Posted by
crewdawg
That would just barely be industry standard. American gets 30 min above guarantee for every conversion to short call. United gets 1 hour above guarantee for every short call they're not used.
The company is out of control with their short call usage. It's now up to our negotiators to get us something that will deter the company from doing such things. Sure they won't WANT to give us that....see below.
Originally Posted by
TED74
Fact is, retirements increase significantly over the next two contracts and we have the leverage (should we choose to use it smartly).
I did not know that about AA and UA contract. That detail changes my mind.
This is exactly the type of detail comparison we should be doing prior to exchanging openers next year.
Anything that
ANY carrier has that is better than our current book should be in our opener. Negotiation strategy 101 says that you ask (within reason)
above what you expect to end up getting. If other carriers have something in their book, I'd say it is
within reason to ask for the same or a little bit more.
Of course, once negotiations start, the NC needs to focus on the polling data and the voice of the membership for the end result, but in this negotiations/economic/retirement environment we should shoot for the moon as every contract negotiation following ours will try (and possibly succeed) to one-up us.