Originally Posted by
onedolla
So the day Spirit has top pay and retirement (never going to happen) is when you think it’s appropriate to ask for other niceties in a contract? I don’t know the answer to this, but is that how the other majors did it? I’ve heard people here spew that we need to go through the same amount of “contract cycles” to get what everyone else has (as of today) so to them, we will always be 10-50 years behind until we reach the right cycle to ask for something.
Sick if needed is a nice contractual niceties
Red eye override pay is a nice contractual niceties
Uniform allowance as a monthly stipend vs 18 months is low hanging fruit that we should not even think about.
Crew meals are worthless just as our uniform resupply at 18 months is, majority of us don’t want it (eat it) and do our own thing for uniforms and food.
$20 a month is about the equivalent of a little more 25 cents an hour at guarantee. If you feel like that’s time well spent at the table, so be it. I’m sure Bendo would much rather spend time at the table discussing $15 vs $20 a month at the table vs LTD offsets, health care, 18% DC, and top pay that actually surpasses other Airbus operators