Spirit of NKS, Part II
03-30-2016, 11:23 AM
#5021
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Originally Posted by gonyon
Un fooking our pay scale is going to be a colossal pain in the *** and it means smaller raises for the senior guys. Shouldn't have gone this route in the first place but here we are and I will not vote in favor of a slopey scale. Period.
03-30-2016, 11:58 AM
#5022
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Spirit of NKS, Part II
Originally Posted by FreeSmiles
It does not mean smaller raises at the top. Parity from the top to bottom. Nobody on our list should take it in the shorts for others on the list. But the rates, and by extension, the slope, need to be in line with the industry. Anything less, and we just "fooked" ourselves.
Believe the response would be the pie is only so big. Because there are so many pilots in the lower end they will say that it's enormously expensive to bring the lower ones up and much cheaper to push the top rates up where we will all eventually be.
That is not my position at all I agree 100% with what you are saying but I'd imagine that's how the Nc is going to respond
03-30-2016, 12:01 PM
#5023
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Originally Posted by gonyon
Un fooking our pay scale is going to be a colossal pain in the *** and it means smaller raises for the senior guys. Shouldn't have gone this route in the first place but here we are and I will not vote in favor of a slopey scale. Period.
you are wrong amigo
03-30-2016, 12:07 PM
#5024
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Originally Posted by Rainbows
You guys are seriously deluding yourselves if you think a mediator is going to consider Spirit a peer of United, Delta or American. I hate to say it, because flying an Airbus is flying an Airbus, but we're gonna get a mediator that compares us to jetblue, virgin, southwest and frontier.
03-30-2016, 12:10 PM
#5025
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No need to worry about any of this...We aren't getting sh*t from these people unless a rls comes our way...Which isn't going to happen...We have zero leverage...
03-30-2016, 12:15 PM
#5026
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Originally Posted by SourGrapes
you are wrong amigo
I wanna believe. Help me
03-30-2016, 12:22 PM
#5027
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Originally Posted by IAJETCAPT
No need to worry about any of this...We aren't getting sh*t from these people unless a rls comes our way...Which isn't going to happen...We have zero leverage...
03-30-2016, 12:28 PM
#5028
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Originally Posted by gonyon
Believe the response would be the pie is only so big. Because there are so many pilots in the lower end they will say that it's enormously expensive to bring the lower ones up and much cheaper to push the top rates up where we will all eventually be.
That is not my position at all I agree 100% with what you are saying but I'd imagine that's how the Nc is going to respond
That is not my position at all I agree 100% with what you are saying but I'd imagine that's how the Nc is going to respond
03-30-2016, 12:47 PM
#5029
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Originally Posted by gonyon
Believe the response would be the pie is only so big. Because there are so many pilots in the lower end they will say that it's enormously expensive to bring the lower ones up and much cheaper to push the top rates up where we will all eventually be.
That is not my position at all I agree 100% with what you are saying but I'd imagine that's how the Nc is going to respond
That is not my position at all I agree 100% with what you are saying but I'd imagine that's how the Nc is going to respond
There is no pie.
03-30-2016, 12:53 PM
#5030
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Position: Low paid Airbus gear slinger
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Originally Posted by Macjet
The railroads, for whom the RLA was written, negotiate industry wide rates. Why can't we?
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