UPS CPT,
I did misread the payscale of FedEx, they do make $206 an hour. Its ABX that is making $239 an hour. I know that ABX's guarentee is lower than ours, I dont have a problem with them lowering ours and maybe then we would have to hire many more pilots and upgrades will come quicker.
So are your saying your happy with $240 an hour? I think the company offered us more than that on the mid term contract. I know for the person on the outside looking in, $240 is a large leap from where we are at currently, but thats only because the company got us cheap on the last contract and has been living the dream of cheap labor since then. If we sign a contact this time for $240 hour, we'll be cheap labor again from the get/go and have to live with it for 10-12 years and UPS will be laughing all the way to the bank.
As far as the COLA issue, IMHO, a 3% COLA increase is still too low.
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