Originally Posted by
zoooropa
It actually works EXACTLY that way, or the opposite of what you are implying. There is a number, we don't know what that number is, but there is a number. That number is going to be divided up and we get to decide how it is going to be divided with limitations. Using your theory, we could be offered the highest narrow body rates with a me too clause and there would still be beans left in the jar for profit sharing even though we are currently roughly 30-40% existing narrow body rates. You are not going to get everything you want, hence the "negotiating capital" premise. You can spend your beans in one place, or four, but there are only so many beans regardless of how bad we want that reality to not exist.
it exists. But it doesn’t exist in this nonsensical way.
What is the upper limit the company will pay for a labor contract? Once you figure that out, you’ve found your negotiating capital. But they’ll never reveal the absolute number. That figure was different two years ago, it’s different today, and it’ll keep changing two, three, or four years from now.
until then it’s a boogie man. “Oh don’t do this because we might miss out on that”.
yeah? How do you positively know that?
you won’t have the slightest idea until you see the first TA.
how you allocate negotiating capital = beauty is in the eye of the beholder.