Originally Posted by
Sluggo_63
I hate to even ask this question, since I was accused of “throwing shade” at SWA in another thread, but doesn’t basing retro on actual TFPs flown reward “undesirable” behavior during by contract negotiations? Wouldn’t a better system be average TFP? Then folks wouldn’t be so willing to help the company out during contract talks.
Sorry if this sounds like “shade.”
Good question.....
This notion has been bandied about, but we have never been known for our "esprit de corps", especially if someone mentions that (gasp!) not flying on our days off might move the ball further down the field during negotiations. Heck, our last Union Prez actually worked premium during the MDW picket, as did a few other former union "reps".
Given our demographics and abysmal, concessionary, voting record, the way we did it was probably the best overall, and far better than most of "us" would've voted YES! for.