Originally Posted by
FlyPurdue
Obviously we deserve an ILUPA, i’m not sure by what metric, but it needs to account for our larger pilot group at a minimum. My concern is assuming the company and union agree to a top line value that is DL plus ‘something’ in total value - I’m not convinced a mediator is going to be sympathetic to us getting even more just because we feel like we ‘deserve’ more. There is always the concern that the mediator throws the company a few ‘wins’ too.
We’re not going to get more just because we feel that we deserve it. It’s going to be a hard and drawn out fight. Regardless of if we go to mediation, we’re not going to get as much as we feel that we deserve, and the company will have to pay for some things that they don’t want to. We’ll get Delta plus, but some will be upset with the amount of the overage. If the Delta deal was worth $7B, we’re not going to get $10B. Our struggle is over work rules that would limit crew productivity and increase cost from a company standpoint, but increase compensation and QOL from a pilot standpoint. Mediation and strike votes are levers to pull when we get to an impasse, and being that both sides are frequently meeting, we’re not there yet. People are understandably tired of waiting, but we also just started over fresh with a new MEC after the recall/replace process. From a negotiating standpoint we’re not years into the process, we just started over.