Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
Career earnings should interest us all and that's how we should approach our own negotiations.
1,000% agree.
There is zero basis under the RLA for an airline pilot union, and specifically SWAPA, to limit themselves to any sort of NB-only comparison to OAL's. Zero. That is something we have simply accepted as the way it has to be done. The RLA makes no such requirement and the decades of case law on the topic of reasonability and good faith bargaining also establish no such requirement.
If you'd like to learn more about why that is so, you can read the detailed
thread I created on the topic, complete with extensive references.