Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
You are so far off base if thats even in your universe of a baseline . Honest question..is this your first time in a section 6 contract negotiation? There is a way to go about it, and using the airline that makes less than you and the airline that makes a little more than you as any baseline, isnt the way. Just as F9 would not use NK this time around as any baseline if/when they go into section 6, absent of a JCBA.
Our MEC/NC will NOT be going in with F9 or JBlu as any baseline when it comes to a starting baseline for wages. Baseline will be UALs new rates, and probably AA and DAL new rates, thats the baseline for A320 pilots as of 2022. The company can argue why that isnt the baseline to any NMB mediator, not us.
Wait a second. Do you not remember last round of negotiations for F9/NK? Didn’t frontier and spirit both get new CBAs
after UAL/AAL/DAL last round? Frontier pilots basically just got spirit wages. And Spirit went below everyone else who had negotiated before them while in an increasing wage, pilot’s market landscape. But for some reason you think you would start with Big 3 rates as your baseline this time around in section 6? Good luck with that.
and to be clear I’m not saying you shouldn’t try to one up legacies…i am just trying to put some recent negotiating context into your post, which makes it seem like you think UAL+$1 is achievable for a ULCC and that your NC has that in the bag. That’s the point to which I’d say Ted/Biffle/Franke/whatever other puppet masters there are, won’t have any of that.