Please explain how we have the same leverage when the company can raise first year pay to within a percentage of second year pay? I agree it may not help attrition but it definitely helps them with attraction. We'll be negotiating for years, not months.

Probably good enough to pass, but not good enough for people to stay.

Good enough for enough people to stay. This passes, leverage gone.

Attrition will go down.

…and that is why we STILL have leverage!!! Well said.

a win-win if this TA passes!

swing and a miss…

This passes it will make zero short term difference. Must be 100-120 guys with CJOs elsewhere awaiting their class dates right now. And at least as many more burnishing their resumes and prepping for interviews. I think without really major changes in benefits and compensation, NK may wind up like AK. The lifers are those with too much invested in their seniority to leave or locals who are putting up with less than the legacies because of their bases.

I get what you’re saying (finally) but what if this does make a big dent in attrition/retention(even halving the losses)? It probably won’t, but if it does, and the leverage (of refusing to allow them to adjust first year pay without benefiting the rest) does go away for future negotiations because of that, is it still a good deal? And let’s not use any assumptions that the TPA and JCBA get accomplished quickly, raise pay, “two bites”, and all those wishes. Just this TA on its own.

yeah but unlike AK we get the opportunity to negotiate with our JB brothers & sister for a JCBA

If this passes nobody knows what will happen with hiring and attrition. You think it won’t make a difference, but Spirit thinks it will otherwise they wouldn’t offer it. I tend to agree with Spirit that it will help. But we don’t know for sure, I could be wrong. The only thing we know for sure is that we have an INSANE amount of leverage right now.

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I think Spirit knows maybe it’s not enough, but it buys them time. If this passes, they can manage long enough till the JCBA.

You're assuming the B6/NK merger is approved. If it isn't, then we're stuck with this half-baked TA for years waiting for Franke and Co. to really hose us.