Cost of living Increases
Why when we negotiate for our cost of living increases do we settle for a flat negotiated rate like 3% ? Also why do we allow these to end at the end of the contract?
It seems to a me a better solution would be to tie these raises to the Consumer Price index and have them last until a new contract is signed.
The Company has no reason to quickly settle under the current RLA. At least this would keep pay rates up with inflation.
Has this been tried? Yes some years the raise would be lower than others, but it would keep them from stagnating once the contract is over. And instead of negotiating from a $206 max hourly pay rate as we are now, we'd be negotiating from a $225 ish pay rate.