Originally Posted by
fivebyfive
LOA 4 gave "sole" discretion to mamagement to increase first year pay. The union assumed Biffle would do that for no reason other than the goodness in his heart?
That is a good point however you’re leaving out the protections. Once it goes up it cannot go down and it can’t exceed year 2.
That second protection does provide ammo for the 50k bonus argument. In fairness that language was agreed to already but somehow didn’t make it into the ta.
In the end, like I mentioned having a low first year payrate doesn’t provide the leverage you would think it does. All carriers went away from it years ago. That’s a good thing imo. It’s more money for pilots over a career. We can just disagree. No problem.