Originally Posted by
IVVIB
To anyone advocating to take money with no attempt to improve other aspects of the contract, I don't think you understand what the Union is leveraging against management. Mgmt needs the pilot group to just take the cash, unquestioned, so recruiting offers can at least superficially be comparable to PSA. Well, if management needs something why shouldn't the pilot group negotiate to have a few of it's needs addressed as well? No one should be scared of "losing" the pay rates, they've already been conceded to us.
I guess the argument as I see it is that they are offering the 50-seat rates that PSA has (or so I’ve heard). And honestly I’m not so sure that those rates are going to be enough to prop up recruiting in and of themselves. So the argument is that you should take them because in the interim it will be a pay raise and management will be back because they won’t work to help recruit..