Originally Posted by
Sunvox
UAL guy just trying to figure out if there's yet another way in which Delta Profit Sharing is better than ours so just wondering: Do Delta FAs take part in the Profit Sharing plan?
Thanks in advance.
Honestly I don't know the answer for UAL either, but I think my first guess is that UAL FAs do in fact get paid from the profit sharing pool calculated by our plan. So . . . if Delta pilots don't share and United pilots do that would be another HUGE difference . . . not that it probably will make a lick of difference in the current round of negotiations, but like they say "Enquiring minds want to know." (That's a very small joke because the term comes from the trash paper The National Enquirer; it should be Inquire not Enquire.)
Just to add some texture…. DL has come for our profit sharing multiple times over the years, successfully reducing the % and/or $ amount where they kick in.
C15 TA1 included such a “trade” of PS % for pay rates. The outcry was central to TA1’s failure, recalls, resignation of the MEC chair, and the success of TA2 (not unlike what UA is currently undergoing).
In the meantime, however, management had reduced all the other employees PS% to the (lower/failed) TA1 rate in 2016. Only when TA2 passed and kept PS untouched for pilots was management forced to re-raise the other non-contract employee PS% to what it was.
I’m sure that really pizzed Mgmt off.