Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
For the love of Buddah people, when the 2003 CBA was negotiated at CHAUTAUQUA there were no E-Jets. Now its 2009, and they are deeply involved in contract negotiations.
Then why, in 2003, did they negotiate payrates for aircraft up to 99 seats? By the way these aircraft were not on the property then, nor were there any plans to operate them.
However, by giving management the same FO payrate on all aircraft, and negotiating sub-par 99 seat rates, any leverage they had has been removed.
Had they only negotiated payrates for the aircraft types not on the property, management and the union would have to come to terms on the new airplane type rates of pay. More than likely all other 100-seat operators would have been considered and the payrate would have been much higher.