Originally Posted by
tsquare
I don't either, especially since the top categories' payrates are out of whack wrt the rest of the group... 10% of the pilots are making 12% of the payroll.... Either the fleet needs to be rationalized.. with a review with every purchase (pipe dream I know) or we need longevity pay....
One thing that I got from the Airtran SLI thread is that SWA has a lot of soft money, or at least ways to work more and make some decent coin.
It might be in DALPA's benefit to push less for hard, dollar improvement to the base rates, and push for more soft money (credit time, better trip rig, etc). Before you hit reply and dogpile me, think of this.
It's an easier sell to the other employee groups to say, "yea, we gave the pilots 3% raise over 4 years" than to say, "we gave them 20% right off the bat". However, the soft money (that we see and can figure out) makes up for it. We make more $$$ in our paycheck (for the same work) while the company gets to say, "what big pay raises?" and point to our $/hr rates.