Originally Posted by
satchip
You guys are high. 45% raise ain't gonna happen in this economy. And if it did you can kiss the bottom 2000 guys goodbye. I don't want to be paid the most. I want to be paid the longest. And if that means you never see C2000 rates again, so be it. The more I read about C2000 the more I think you guys got played. You gave up how many thousand jobs for some awsome payrates that were ephemeral at best.
Then again those productivity gains the company got enabled us to be the potential powerhouse thatbwe are today. So thank you for my job today.
Before you start calling me names, we will al vote for the next contract based on our own self interests. Mine is continued long term employment. You all at the top don't have to worry about that. I understand you. Please understand me.
Sat;
I beleive you are reading in to the posts. The exercise was to point out a percentage increase to hit the coveted c2K hourly rates, and what a 20%,30%,40% etc rate would look like extrapolating the wages off of the 2012 rates.
Rough math on my part based on a public statement of the 5% bump this year costing 90 million is giving rough numbers to the cost of such demands. No more no less.
Not advocating a starting position as that is the job of our MEC.