Originally Posted by
havick206
Paraphrasing from a reliable source;
- Signing bonus is for new hires replacing the current NH bonus. It doesn’t apply to current pilots agreeing to the LOA.
- LOA allows PSA to deliberately over-schedule the training center in case of washouts/unseats.
This shook out like so;
PSA MEC was approached by their management a short time ago and were forced to sign NDA’s before being shown the proposed agreement. Their MEC met a week later and were also forced to sign NDA’s. It appears that ALPA National was not informed of the developments until it went public.
Here’s the most important part;
It’s no accident that AAG dropped this on PSA first. Trying this with all 3 WO’s at once would have encouraged pattern bargaining. They wanted to set the bar low to prevent anyone from negotiating add-ons based on PSA’s history.
Maybe no 2013 pilots are at PSA but those who jumped at the opportunity to ride the PSA wagon are still there and they were there in September of 2016 also when we should have gotten these raises but PSA jumped at a bad deal then to set the bar for the other WOs for years to come. So I think your statement has some merit. Happy the pay is going up over there hopefully to be followed shortly by us and PDT but I hope the PSAers still realize there's a long way to go to get credibility back in mine and many many envoy pilots eyes.