Originally Posted by
Big5
It sounds like you’re relieved that this TA took your 60% pay cut and transferred it to the lower 1/3. I’ll borrow your quote as it applies to the lower 1/4 now, “that certainly would not be right.”
If I’m voting yes it is certainly to HELP the lower 1/3. Are you suggesting that this TA is hurting the lower 1/3 overall? The rest of us don’t get a raise if this passes. I’m not sure what you mean by “my 60% pay cut”; the cut in take-home pay for those displaced in the middle third will stay at 20-30% regardless if this passes or not. That was my point as to why pay protection is a necessity (obviously I’m rounding numbers).
Furlough pay remains intact at full MPG, if and when that happens, btw. For the ones who are in a hurry to leave, there are guaranteed, rolling 3-month COLAs.
I do understand the 50% hourly cut is a tough pill to swallow for those toward the top of the lower 1/3, but I think it’s better than the high risk of getting furloughed for possibly years, with none of these options available.