Originally Posted by
Proxsys2INOP
Agreed. It’s funny that guys are screaming that payrates are hard numbers and can’t be argued. Agreed, but the multiplier is in the language. You may be happy making $600/hr, but thought you were going to make 89 hours and they “don’t see it that way” because an ADD day has no value, but it does when you pick stuff up. Or whatever other interpretations they want to make. You just lost 19 hours at $600. I don’t get why guys don’t understand this. Must be a few years from retirement.
ADD days are another arbitration that was supposed to be an easy for the win but…rumor is that union doesn’t even want to arbitrate it anymore because they think we will lose based on the RAP arbitration.
Instead of relying on some interpretation to get paid more soft time, just pay me more. Again that cannot be ignored. All the crap we have been losing is the soft time that that old regime tried to negotiate into the contract but didn’t do a good enough job apparently. The soft time can be left to interpretation like ADD days, RAPs, SAP going abg, removal pay for vfns, pay per flight segment instead of per trip pairing, all of these are soft time arbitrations that we have lost or will prolly lose.
I’m all for getting a better contract with soft time, legacy language, etc. I just have no faith that management will honor it (anybody really think crew services gonna change anything?). I also have little faith the union will be able to enforce the contract through arbitration. At best, arbitration is a coin toss - lately it has been much worse. Its just my opinion, but I think anybody that’s been here for sometime knows that what I’m saying rings true.
Just ask yourself: do you really think that just because we rewrite the contract that foster and scheduling will stop telling us to fly now, grieve later??? Y’all are too cute… maybe I’ll sell you some swampland for $600m.