Originally Posted by
JobHopper
Because it's in the contract.
At NWA we got 2+40 per day. The rationale was that spending a full month in training resulted in 80 hrs pay. Probably the same type of reasoning here, but you would have to ask a Negotiating Committee member why they settled on that number.
Would be nice if we can get this fixed in an LOA or for the next contract. The question isn't really why, but why did our negotiators agree to it.