Originally Posted by
ConfCodeCOOL
I don't think us giving longevity credit is a "concession", other than sure it's a couple of bucks that could have went in my pocket, but TSH is paying more money to somebody, just not to me. I got a raise too from the increased CA rate, and ultimately yeah okay so somebody goes up a step or two on the FO rate, good for them, they've already paid some dues at another 121, we're making things better for them. Just like the ready reserve rules don't affect me, but I still would like to see them better for the new people because why pull the ladder up after ourselves?
And even if you say "oh well it's a concession", if it helps us staff, it's a WIN. Right now anything we can do to staff improves my QOL... no raised floor, more days off, maybe even green days again to drop those unproductive turns, no attempts to jr man me... I will happily let them pay a $25k signing bonus and give me nothing if it means I get back to 19-20 days off a month, thank you very much.
You get back to 19-20 days off when the company starts building schedules efficiently. It has nothing to do with our inability to staff. Schedule inefficiencies actually make the staffing problem worse.
You seem to think that giving concessions will somehow improve your QOL. Let me let you in on a little secret. Concessions, by definition, do not do that. The company is currently walking all over our contract and our union just gave up some pretty big things including reducing the company's need find First Officers by allowing right seat Captains and you somehow think this will improve your QOL?
We needed "operational necessity" defined. Did we get that? No. That should be worded as something the company can use only during a declared IROP and have a limit on the number of IROPs that can be declared in months.
We need language that any bonus increase to new hires must also be paid out to every pilot already on property. Did we get that? No.
We need long call brought back. Where is that?
We need the company to become contractually compliant again.
Also, the union says they agreed to the 2 year extension because they claim it will help the company be better positioned to negotiate CPA renewals. Did the company open their books to the union? Is this something we even needed to do?
Remember its the pilots that pay the dues and our representatives bestowed concessions upon us in order to help the company without so much as consulting the pilot group. Hell even something as simple as a survey asking what we would be willing accept would have been more than what they did.