Originally Posted by
9easy
Drinking the margaritas early today?
The EXCO's bid status is irrelevant. He gets 120 PCH every month, and it would be the same whatever city he bids in. This isn't top secret, you can see it on the bid awards along with the FPL the other union guys are bidding for.
Plenty of mgmt pilots bid random bases and work in Vegas, this is a fairly routine subject. Do all the ALPA leaders at Delta have to bid ATL? Of course not.
The last video said we aren't going to talk about hourly pay til the rest of the contract is done, because rates are a moving target with AA/DL/UA in negotiations. I wouldn't expect anything other than this strategy, pay rates are the easiest thing to bargain because they are simple numbers. Wait to do that til the end.
9easy - not a single management pilot bids, that is absurd and would be the first grievance filed. If AR gets 120 PCH every month then why does he bid a line in PGD instead of IWA? Its because he can't always hold that good of a line in IWA, that is why bid for PGD.
The strategy that you don't talk hourly rates is very different from what he said in the video which was all of Section 3 and Section 4. The fact of the matter is that until the union passes sections 3 and 4 on compensation and retirement which are absolutely the most important parts of the contract per our surveys, negotiations will not get serious. Management has passed compensation and retirement. Union has not.
There might be reason for that, i'm just nobody starts negotiating seriously until they pass compensation and retirement.