Originally Posted by
jimmy8
that decent pay rate better be Alaska's current rates. Everyone else is already negotiating or soon will be.
This is the one thing the union did phenomenal of in the email, pointing out everything the company has said about how profitable we are and how amazing we are yet they just piggyback off our cheap labor.
It appears we're working with different definitions of what qualifies as "phenomenal." The union shouldn't need to prove the company's strong financial performance or demonstrate that they're generating substantial profits from lower labor costs. These are well-established facts that nobody has challenged, and under our current Negotiating Committee's approach, this situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
The key point here seems to be that documenting already-known financial facts isn't particularly impressive or helpful - it's just a distraction.