Originally Posted by
Spaceman Spliff
I'm sure the company would be more than happy to take back your very substantial pay increases in return for very minor QOL issues.
My bare ass it's about "QOL and not pay" at NWA. How do you account for your bickering, green book, and absolute irrationality, for starters? I'm pretty sure isn't about a better sick leave policy.
Last time I checked, I couldn't pay for my kid's braces with a "call in honest" policy. Maybe it's different in Detroit. Although I guess since you have your pension in tact, money is only a secondary concern.
Spliff,
This just shows how completely out of touch with the NWA group you are.
Irrational because we wouldn't trade seniority for pay?
Irrational because we LIKE having a cap on health cost increases from year to year (increases that makes those braces expensive)?
Irrational because our sick bank system works VERY well and that some pilots have a significant accrued benefit??
I'm not sure about the bickering part or greenbook part. Everyone over on this side is WELL able to separate out the contract from the SLI issues. Everyone over here also understands that voting down one won't prevent the other. And it's UNIVERSALLY agreed that a BAD SLI isn't worth one penny of pay, pay that can be removed with a stroke of a pen.
If you think that those hard earned provisions in the contract don't come at a SIGNIFICANT cost to the company, then you truly do have a poetic concept of the truth. See which the company is more likely to give up: A few bucks in pay or a 13 hour hard cap on the duty day.
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