Originally Posted by Freighter Captain
Plus, our contract openers for 12 year captain pay were $265 an hour--- not an anemic figure of under $225 that your bold negotiating girly-men dreamed up.
That's precisely the reaction the UPS Management negotiators would like to see. They cherry pick one single item out of another company's package, and get you to lose focus. Your focus should be on UPS, not FedEx.
As has already been intimated, it is farcical to pick one detail from amongst an array of details and make a side-by-side comparison. Pay rates standing alone are meaningless. Did they mention anything about duty rigs, trip rigs, critical duty periods, overrides, paring construction, disruption pay, or sleep facilities when they picked that number? Did they discuss vacation, training, or retirement? We could go on and on. The point is, if you allow them to distract you with an otherwise meaningless number (meaningless when divorced from its context), they win.
Focus man, focus.
We're on the same side.
- TonyC
The truth only hurts if it should.