Originally Posted by
USMCFDX
you forgot the 0% raise you will get for the next 3 years after that - thank you yes voters for a 6 year contract with no provision for additional raises
The next contract needs to have an automatic raise on the amendable date, and at least 3% each anniversary until a new contract is signed. The company will drag out negotiations at least 2 years past the amendable date, then offer us a pittance of what our retro pay would have been as a signing bonus. In this manner they save millions of dollars each time we negotiate.
I also don't like the fact that the 2% is widely advertised in the media as being for "every employee" when we will never see it. One could call that false advertising, or worse. Remember, if we lie to the company, we are fired. It should work both ways.