Originally Posted by
Sunvox
1.023 * 1.014 * 1.070 * 1.065 = 18% inflation 2019-2022
What am I missing? Delta's TA is 18/5/5/4 pay raise and 4/4/18 retro, no? So, the combo of pay & retro exceed inflation, that is so long as you accept the statistics on the website I used for inflation data.
Retro doesn’t cover current inflation, it just bridges the gap over the overdue years. So unless you do a year over year breakdown of retro pay that
exceeds inflation creating a surplus, you can’t really count it in DOS rates. Either way, based on the numbers provided, it looks like they are at least very
near inflation, which is an area I think we should be pattern bargaining to meet & exceed.
Point I’m making is we should care less about the Delta
rates & more about the standard of bargaining against inflation.