If you knew anything about SW you would know those yahoos! who manage our pay "negotiations" dangle crap like this in front of newbies just before a union vote. Although there is no vote in the immediate future, ALPA is breathing down our necks and magmt/SAPA knows it.
I bet we get less than 1/2 of those proposals, and magmnt has said "HELL NO" to splitting the pay scales..so maybe that is off the table.
Im not holding my breath. Our negotiating team has no stick and therefor takes what they are given and says "thank you ...may I have another!?"