You make a good post.
Originally Posted by
PCL_128
The concept of bargaining credits for scope giveaways has been around since at least the late '90s. It's one of the things that the jokers at the RJDC used to talk about so often, complaining that mainline pilots were just thinking of them as "bargaining credits" to get bigger pay raises.
Ok... then you write:
Originally Posted by
PCL_128
a... great idea came up! "We'll give you a "bargaining credit" of $100 million if you agree to allow X number of 70-seaters to be outsourced." Suddenly $100 million existed to be added to the pay rate tables, and pilots, being greedy and shortsighted as always, jumped at the opportunity.
When bankruptcy rolled around, the bargaining credit concept wasn't used to offset the effects of pay raises anymore, it was instead used to give the union credit for cost cuts that the company demanded and claimed in bankruptcy court that they needed. It was always the same concept, just applied differently whether it was a good bargaining cycle or a concessionary bargaining cycle.
Sounds like the RJDC "jokers" might have had a entirely legitimate point.
Last edited by Bucking Bar; 05-15-2011 at 07:53 AM.