Originally Posted by
Chimpy
Whats funny is we would be stuck with that POS deal they offered us in 2015 all the way to 2025. Dont be so short-sighted
You're right. We're better off now with our 2010 contract.
If we had accepted the company offer my rate right now would be $98/hour with a 1% DC for an effective rate of $98.98 instead of the current $77.73. That would be 27.5% more than I am currently making. The proposed current rate, which has been tabled, for me would be $112.17 with a 11% DC (IIRC) for an effective rate of $124.50. A 'raise' of 26% over the proposed two years ago. These type of rate increases in increments might be a little more tolerable than the 48% raises we've demanded, and have been granted, with restrictions by the company and the NMB.
Our negotiators are nice guys but we've been outsmarted, outplayed, and outmaneuvered every step of the way. We hiked up the contract skirt in 2015 showing our 'strength'. Where's our quid? We demanded profit sharing out of our pockets to pay for everyone else. We got our MEC personally named in the TRO. Has anyone asked what happens when they aren't ALPA office holders yet still named in a TRO? We voted in a strike authorization that will never happen and failed to publicly capitalize on this false threat. I have an 'I VOTED' bag tag that maybe two people in the terminal will even notice much less be aware of what the reference is. But hey, it's red. Scary. The company has professional negotiators and lawyers and we have pilots running the show. It was a systemic failure every step of the way.
So, we can either keep pointing at AA, DAL, UAL, and WN screaming for their rates (they probably have more airplanes in MX than we have flying the line, NEO's excluded) whose acceptance depends on this company not being able to put bodies in the seats with minimal attrition or come off the rates a bit for LTD, scope, and PBS with decent rules for more money NOW.
We don't pay our FA's jack. We don't pay our MX jack. We don't pay our HR jack. We don't pay our DX jack. We contract below the wing and don't pay them jack. But yes, we, WE are going to be the lone labor group with an industry standard rate and work rule package. I wish we would, I really, really do. But at some point you have to stop clicking your ruby red heels and start dealing with reality.