Originally Posted by
higney85
Is this the part where I say "You are the union"? The company's propaganda is so far in left field I'm sure legal put the fist to their own forehead when it came out. Your MEC works for YOU. There is absolutely NO reason for this to get drug out on our account- your officers work for free and are at the same pay scale as the next guy.... That being said there is no way the MEC could agree to CONCESSIONS from TA1. Is that what you want? I know my phone has been on fire with guys telling me where they stand and I am right there with them. Maybe you feel differently- have you contacted your rep?
I hope the company propaganda is a joke that we were only negotiating retirement and 401K benefits for the top few. The match is actually kind of funny while being insulting as well. For those of you that don't know the match for 1-5 years of service is only 25% of the first 5% that you contribute. I contributed the 5% to get the match last year and that only equated to $320 that the company had to dish up toward my 401K.
Meanwhile, I keep getting a pop-up on our union website that Air Wisconsin gets 4% of their salary regardless if they contribute or not and they have a smaller pilot group (especially now that Colgan has joined our ranks). What are we doing to help the industry?
I was flying with a senior pilot (15 years at most regionals is senior) and he was bragging to me that while our negotiators were on the phone arguing about vacation slide to one of or senior management (who is involved directly in our negotiations, and happenned to be on speaker phone) , that it wasn't needed to get us to vote in a new TA. All we needed was a few small tokens and it would pass, undermining our negotiators and the pilot group as well.