So let me get this straight. For the last couple years, the HSA was getting worse and worse to try and weed people off of it. Now they want everyone on the HSA so the solution is to make the HRA as bad as possible so we will be forced to the HSA? The contractual plan rose 20 percent last year from $400/month to $480/month. If it does another 20 percent, it will be $576/month next year. I didn't look so I'm not sure that's accurate. What I'm getting at is even at our salaries, insurance is starting to become unaffordable.

 

That is a CONCESSION.

Why do you keep floating concessions when the company is making billions.

NO reduction in profit sharing. YES to pay and QOL increases.

Why are people even talking about concessions?

 

You can thank the "affordable care act" (obamacare) for this


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That's great. March 2000 hire. 133 away from a 2007 hire.

 

So, can somebody tell me where I'm missing something here? How does a NYC 717 FO hired about a month ago get out of his/her seat lock to hold ATL 7ER FO?

My first thought was displacement, but I thought we were expanding the 717 in NYC.

Cheers

 

I think he was asking a question, not declaring anything in particular.

At the end of the "end game", all of our other sections are TA'd, the last discussion is Section 3. You've negotiated most of the pay rate increases.... the company says "for the last 4% raise you want, we don't want to be locked into a structure that high in case things turn south..."

They offer 3% in fixed rates

OR

to increase the PS plan equal to 5% more.

What do you do as the negotiator?

 

The company can waive freezes any time they want to. Bid what you want at all times.

 

Pledge? Is that a pledge pin? On your uniform?

I called my rep and asked about this specifically. He gave me the same answer that I was expecting when I sent you the PM last week.

Nothing nefarious is going on. It's a large event that requires a support structure to operate. The Delta MEC sponsors the charity (fund raising) golf tournament, and the pilot you are referring to has been tasked with organizing. He has also apparently done the programming to handle the incoming donations, and should be on site to handle the inevitable "glitches" that pop up.

Now you are free to disagree with the MEC's decision to put on a charitable golf event, but the proper channel to raise that concern is via your reps. I personally don't have a problem with it now that I've gotten the details - I've seen firsthand how much work is involved with organizing a large event like this, and don't find it unreasonable that we send support for an event that we are sponsoring. YMMV.

 

Um, no... wife's father died recently... they would not let me use/move vacation, even though there were a lot of complexities due to him dieing in a different country (basically took two weeks to straighten everything out). Good luck.

Also, I was moving from days with worse coverage to days with better coverage.

 

That is why Mike works full time to lower expectations. RA has given them marching orders to reduce our profit sharing. But the line pilots have spoken. 98% want to keep or increase their profit sharing.

Obviously the inside admin guys are not ready to give up on getting RA our concessions.