Originally Posted by
slowplay
Yes, there is a disparity. It's what was negotiated by both parties and ratified by both groups in the JCBA. It contained step raises in the DC contributions for fNWA pilots through 2012 at the same rate as fDAL pilots. Yours just started from your contractual baseline (6.5% vice the fDAL 11%). You leave out, however, the cost of funding the fNWA pensions. That's a significant cost, and is money that is not shared with fDAL pilots. Add that in to the equation and see if you still think fNWA is being shortchanged.
You got what you brought to the merger and the same increases that fDAL pilots got. Now you want to change it to increase your personal compensation. There are a few things in the JCBA I'd like to change to fix mine as well.
As to your "rep" comments, that's just sad...if it were true.
You might look at some of the votes after the March MEC meeting for guidance.
his point i believe is that the NWA side newhires have no pension and get the lower contribution amount thus getting the double slap in the face. We tried to get that fixed and resolutions passed only to be shot down by the DAL mec. On top of that we passed resolutions to fix our pay bump dates to match the Contract and DAL pilots. its clearly wrong that we were Specifically written out like that in the contract. All we wanted was to get our longevity bumps at DOH like the contract states and that was shot down as well. The way its written now, if we hired tomorrow those pilots would get the higher contribution as well as get DOH pay bumps thus putting the post 2001 NWA hires on a substandard contract in those regards.