Originally Posted by
Desdi
No we didn’t, that was just called a raise because most of our group doesn’t realize once a contract is amendable the foregone annual step increases in pay (however long it takes) are traditionally represented in the next CBA’s signing bonus. So in otherwords we were paid off by money we already had coming to us!
I agree with your perspective here but the point was we were bought off cheap just to get us in the ballpark of DL’s pay rates. Yes you are correct in that Our group traded scope for money that we would have got in time. I hope our group shows a little more backbone this time around.