The 12 year pay scale is an attempt to buy off FOs who will be stuck in the right seat, not by choice, but because there is no movement. Senior FOs who were bidding LCAs, anyone who wants to max out pay and retirement under the MBCBP, will upgrade, and there will be less jobs due to efficiency gains and outsourcing allowed by the TA.

The cost of any real and essential thing that we want to buy, housing, energy, healthcare, education, food, insurance, skilled labor to fix said property, transportation, is going up 20% per year. We need a fat raise right now to offset inflation. And I see a potential issue with the low raises in future years of all of the CBAs of 5/4, and worst of all a proposed 3 percent. Is there any way to revise this section during the CBA if inflation stays high or goes higher? When we said we wanted to fix retirement, we didn't mean by taking away hourly compensation for every year worked prior to that. Negotiating higher first year pay? That should be the company's problem to recruit new hires. How is that a win for anyone who can vote?