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01-29-2011 | 11:32 AM
#72
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3% with a 1% signing bonus is what I heard. 3% doesn't keep up with inflation and the "signing bonus" is based on your pensionable earnings from NOV 1 to now. I see, last contract it was a "Signing Bonus" lump sum that left A LOT of money out, but this time they cant wait to send those $200 (after taxes).
What does FDX want AND get if we sign? A CGN FDA, and that's huge. I say vote no and let them sweeten the deal. This isn't CARMAX. I don't think we should just blindly agree because we are being sold a new deal.
We should be getting 5%/5% and a more significant signing bonus than whats being intimated after 4a2b.
What does FDX want AND get if we sign? A CGN FDA, and that's huge. I say vote no and let them sweeten the deal. This isn't CARMAX. I don't think we should just blindly agree because we are being sold a new deal.
We should be getting 5%/5% and a more significant signing bonus than whats being intimated after 4a2b.
01-29-2011 | 12:14 PM
#74
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Honestly, from the rumblings I've heard, the FDA deal is pretty dang good. It's the rest of the TA that I will analyze before my vote is cast.
01-29-2011 | 12:18 PM
#75
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From: Zeppelin Tail Gunner
C'mon man
IF it has this in it and IF it doesn't have this in it? For crying out loud, IF your sister had cajones, she'd be your brother!! Why is it so hard to just wait and see what's in the darn thing? This place sounds like a knitting club for old ladies.
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01-29-2011 | 03:13 PM
#78
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From: Musical chairs
Let's keep P2P on the pilot to pilot level, not the pilot to public board. Our job is to get the word out person to person, not by posting on public internet forums. 
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01-29-2011 | 04:43 PM
#79
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No, they were smart enough. DW put out an email stating that we should carefully consider if bidding the 777 would be a good idea without a payrate (something to that effect), then he bid it and was senior enough to hold it. Unfathomable!
01-29-2011 | 05:02 PM
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I would have to agree that the Company really wanted new FDA stuff; that is why it all was "TA'd" so quickly. Based on that assumption, we certainly have the leverage and should go for the gusto. Once we sign off on this thing, we have no leverage for later. Thats what I thought about the FDA LOA, but I realize it was so crummy that it actually hurt the Companies planning, seeing how senior HKG went, as predicted (
). Thank goodness they came up with 4a2b and excess bids to fill HKG.....geniuses! So now we might have a second chance to use some negotiating capital. We should really stand back and think for a moment. Remember that it is just business.
As for the pessimists on here; we need more of them! Kinda like piloting. Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Anyone who didnt learn from the last LOA debacle could be brain dead. Not trying to throw stones, but the facts are the facts.
). Thank goodness they came up with 4a2b and excess bids to fill HKG.....geniuses! So now we might have a second chance to use some negotiating capital. We should really stand back and think for a moment. Remember that it is just business.As for the pessimists on here; we need more of them! Kinda like piloting. Plan for the worst and hope for the best. Anyone who didnt learn from the last LOA debacle could be brain dead. Not trying to throw stones, but the facts are the facts.
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