Originally Posted by
dojetdriver
Well, alrighty then. So, was that money given to basically say "thanks for not voting in a union, so heres a "raise". Curious about the amount, with the "18 month freeze" adjusted for COLA, was it really a raise?
Also, as much as it was a "raise", was it used to help ASA from getting anything industry leading and to just keep them "average"?
These questions have been asked and debated several times over the last year. In my opinion yes it was a "thanks for voting down the union" raise and it in NO way came close to matching COLA.
As for your ASA question, I don't know but ASA gained a lot more in their TA than a few $ here and there. The Majority (CR2 & ATR CA’s especially) of their pilots ended up with huge raises while others not so huge. But all of them gained valuable pay structure and soft pay that they never had before. We can debate it one way or the other and although their TA wasn't industry leading, it did match industry leading. I’m not saying that it was right or wrong, good or bad, but it was approved by a very large margin.