Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
That's why I'm asking because the way you worded your post makes it sound like that might be what you were attempting to communicate. It sounds like Rseat picked up on the same vibe from your post. If that's not what you meant, would you care to clarify?
Absolutely. I care about my total career value, work rules, soft money, and how the whole contract translates into the bottom line. Rates, while important, are only a fraction of the total equation and are a mere snapshot of one metric out of many. It's easy to focus on one and disregard a lot of other things.
Not only that, it's absolutely dangerous as hell. Given that the company has started kinda negotiating in public, how many people will fixate on rates and disregard things like LTD or rig, or reigning in the training scheduling BS, etc, etc. etc. Care to guess how many would see the rates, be blown away by them and ignore everything else? Time to focus on EVERYTHING. The full monty. Not just pay rates.