Originally Posted by
Deserthusker
You know that a lot of the junior guys are the ones complaining about not getting the fdp that they were told to expect. There is also no transparency on how VEDs are awarded. The VEWDs that have been being used more are awarded by seniority. How does that benefit the new guys?
When did it become our responsibility to work harder to make the company more money(refused VEDs=more third party lift)? Has it occurred to you that the company saying that it intends to come to the table with us NEXT year is them just squeezing more and delaying the inevitable? You have seen the articles about them talking about how we are sold old through next year right? That isn’t them coming to recurrent and hyping up the troops, that is them making statements to the public.
You're absolutely right, but we're not in negotiations, yet. Why not save the tools in our arsenal until we are? Unless of course you're trying to bring them to the table sooner, which both the company and the union suggest isn't going to happen in 2022.
My arguement is that they could easily come out and say that they'd love to give us all a substantial raise, but since they had to sub contract so many flights due to nobody picking up extra days, the money just isn't there.