Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
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
It’s more than the 6 months lost. Even IF you get a deal in 6 months, it’s not 6 months lost at DOS rates, it’s 6 months longer to get to the new TA DOS+1rates.
So the loss of wages also has to be figured with taking longer to get to DOS1 rates. So any TA2 rates would need to smash DOS+1 rates as well.
If it takes a year to get TA2, not only did you lose all of the year with the raise, but now the new TA2 has to best TA1 DOS+1 rates. Makes no sense when we are dealing with a 2 year deal.