Originally Posted by
Hedley
Do you expect to see a 30% increase in rates plus all of the other stuff that people are demanding, or just TA1 but with more money? If you think that even in this market that we’re going to get 30% DOS + cost of living increases, eliminate the concessions in TA1, and significantly improve our current rules, just skip reading the next deal and vote no. 10% will probably get voted down, 20 would be better, but I’m expecting to see TA1 rolled back out with 15% DOS +5% increases, LCA’s paid by the trip, no scope gives, current book on reassignments, current book on reserve, and possibly a few other tweaks. More would obviously be better, but I highly doubt that the majority would vote to take over a year to start over. If TA2 has the changes that I listed, it wouldn’t be a landslide, but it would easily pass. I just hope it has a me too clause because once the training department is staffed, the company has little reason to return to the table.
Wadr what you describe is a 50+1 extension. A pay raise, a few tweaks, and current book on everything else. Once again we trash our leverage giving the company the relief it desires wrt the training pipeline.
It’s been 10 years since we’ve had a full contract. That wasn’t even a true contract considering all the opposing forces involved. During that time lived under contract extensions and LOAs frittering away leverage at each point. This is the reason our entire contract is so lacking.
You argue yet another extension with a me too clause because the company has no reason to come back to the table. That tells me you realize what we are signing is inadequate and hope another pilot will accomplish what we’re unwilling to do.
If we continue with this madness of extensions and LOAs, in the end we’ll essentially be working for hourly rates under a contract so woefully inadequate that we’ll never catch up. This career will forever be harmed. I for one am willing to wait as long as it takes.
PS…time to shelve Interest Based Bargaining. That will only lead to slightly cost plus agreements under a variable cost structure that the company so desires.