Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We have never seen any real retro pay in a contract. If the contract runs 5 years late which is fast looking at recent contracts it would mean the company having to write a 5.5 billion dollar check at contract signing. Not very likely.
I can't speak for what you did at Delta, but we fought for and got retro pay a number of times at NWA and my previous airline.
Truth is that all management's account for the possibility of retro immediately upon a contract's amendable date. They account for it and assume they'll have to pay it. When they don't have to because warriors like you are afraid to ask for it, it just makes for even bigger management bonuses.
Carl