Originally Posted by
baseball3792
As someone on first year pay, I hate it. But… Alaska was in negotiations for years and had to vote on a strike authorization to finally get their increase. JetBlue gets paid more but lacks QOL provisions that we have (I bet management would raise pay if we agreed to give them full control of the reserve grid!). We have been in negotiations for… two months. These things take some time, and we will not know if you are correct or not for several more months. But I tend to agree with everyone else. The crazy low training pay and first year pay is likely a major factor forcing management to the table. We can’t provide “proof” other than the fact that their initial proposal was to just raise first year pay.
To be clear Alaska was in negotiation for years through a pandemic and an airline industry asking for bailouts. We cannot use their timeline for any kind of measuring stick in todays pilot market. Also they were negotiating the entire contract. We are only looking at compensation right now which is black and white. Work rules will be in the JCBA. Anyone that wants you to think it should take years to negotiate compensation only is trying to lower your expectations.