Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
isn’t that what our annual raises in the last contract were for? We are making almost 16% more today than DOS.
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Annual raises do 2 things. The first is attempt to counter/preempt inflation. The second is (at least sometimes), to advance the ball further down the field with a genuine raise. Every contract must get the payscale back up above inflation, else we are effectively taking a pay cut.
Following bankruptcy, C19 finally got inflation adjusted pay back to the high water mark of C2000 levels. I'm not interested in ever giving any of that hard-fought ground back.
Originally Posted by
Xray678
Anyone who thinks the company is going to agree to a contract that still has auto accept is kidding themselves.
Partially agree to an extent, at least for OOBWS. But again, the quid has to be huge. Like massively huge. They need a deal far worse that we do.
Originally Posted by
LumberJack
In addition, PB/PR days during the month are unmatched by any other airline.
I once had a conversation with my WN neighbor. We were talking about GS and Rolling Thunder. He stopped me and said, "Wait, you get your days off
back??" I replied, "you
don't???"
I really don't care what other airlines do, I'm not interested in working my day off and get no day off
back. Hard NO on ever giving back PB days. Reserve will absolutely suck (and yes, I know it's gone way downhill in recent months).