If you vote no, you will lose the 20% raise you've been getting since May 2023 and it will take a year or more to finish arbitration, for which not only is aligning the pay to hire date in question but also the implementation schedule which would be decided by an arbitrator.
So you vote no. We go to arbitration, and it gets hammered out in 12 months. In those 12 months, you've lost:
.- 20% increase in current pay from May 2023 to August 2024 (16 months)
- Assuming blended first/second year pay as nb FO, this amounts to about $38,000 in lost income (it's actually a little more, because of our raise in 2024)
- any signing bonuses thrown in by company for goodwill (these expire if not signed by August 7th IIRC)
- subtract the $5k you'd gain if aligned immediately and you're left with $33k, but that doesn't include the retro pay that you have coming your way. Guessing it's at least a wash. Back to $38k in arrears
Now, 12 months comes around and arbitrator implements the same pay scale as decided but decides to implement the alignment immediately. This means you've gained approximately 83 hrs x 2 months or $5,000 (second year pay at this point).
So congrats, you've just showed the company how smart you are. You may want to ask some US Airways guys about how well arbitration actually works.
We are hiring just fine with our current contract, which is frankly none of our concern. If Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, Sun Country etc can hire, AA will have no problem hiring especially with the new contract.
Nobody really cares what you think, you offer nothing of value and write with grammar similar to a 15 year old. Probably why they ignored you. If you really are at AA, it's time to gain some maturity and act like an adult when addressing peers. BTW I'm a millennial so GTFO with the boomer retort.