Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
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.
Why would a new deal reset DOS+1 and +2 necessarily.
We could negotiate DOS + 6mo. JetBlues TA has their raises over an 18mo period. Doesn’t have to always be a year after DOS.
Saying this is a two year deal also puts a lot of faith that this merger is going to happen. I think it will but there is always a possibility it doesn’t and we will be living with this for a very long time if it doesn’t.