Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Other than regionals, we're not exactly market based due to the seniority system. Fundamentally revenue is the primary factor which determines how much we *could* get paid, since airlines obviously can't operate at a loss for long. It's up to us to leverage the union system to our max benefit..
This. IOW, we get what we negotiate.
There is nothing in the law that requires us to base our compensation on RASM or risk or any other metric that management would like us to buy into.
The law provides very wide latitude for what is considered good faith bargaining. Good faith bargaining does not require us to not appear to be “greedy” nor does it require us to give something to get something.
Like Rick was getting at, it does require our demands to have some connection to reality. If our demands were so high that the company would no kidding be bankrupted if we succeeded in achieving our demands, that would probably exceed the limits of good faith bargaining.
Beyond that, though, we are free to be “greedy” and demand compensation that management or others might label as exorbitant.