Originally Posted by
FahQ2
If the company didn’t think this was important to do, there wouldn’t be any offer at all. Think about that again for a moment.
What other reason would they have to offer any kind of raise at all if they did not want this?
People keep talking about how the company won’t come back to the table and we will be “stuck” with current rates and that this is “free money” (it isn’t).
If first year relief wasn’t something they really wanted, they would have stalled all negotiations until the merger, not put a $400 million offer on the table before the amendable date.
Don’t be so scared.
I think most people realize they probably would come back to the table but the question is how long will it take to get something to vote on again. Most think it’ll be 6+ months till we have something new implemented. The economic gains from waiting may only make sense in this was a longer contract. Assume an average of $30 gains on this ta over 6 months comes out to about $13,000. If it takes 6 months to renegotiate that’s $13,000 lost potential income and if we negotiate $15 more per month it’ll take 12-13 months to recoup that $13,000.
So the big unknowns are how long will it take to have something to vote on and how much more would we gain. How long does it take to recoup the money lost while renegotiating. Big if but if what I said above came to be that puts us a year and a half from now till that renegotiation becomes worth it, close to what would have been the expiration of the ta up for voting now. We could be negotiating for pay parity within that time frame too