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#281

DashTrash , 06-21-2017 06:18 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Flytolive

I wonder how the major airline pilot groups raised their compensation around 60% over the last five years without striking then.

I was speaking of when the industry has a downturn, and it will have a downturn. Scope is something that we own and the Company wants it. Unless we step on our collective d%$k, it will not change. Hopefully we can make some gains???

#282

Dave Fitzgerald , 06-21-2017 08:44 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by APC225

Yup, we have many tools short of striking. We did have a 95% vote to strike which probably helped too.

Going back a little further though we were coming off the broadest and deepest industry recovery possibly in history. Wages topped out at $150k in 2004 as pre-9/11 contracts expired and we skidded into BK-mode contracts and, while they recovered to $218k in 2016, adjusted for inflation that $150k equals just $198k today, so the real gain has been just $20k since 2004 a meager 1% per year.

http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...0PERSONNEL.htm

If you throw massive benefit cuts into the equation we've actually lost ground. Inflation adjusted since 2004 should be at $289k but our current actual is $283k. So we've achieved less than nothing since 2004. I hope we can keep this in mind going into the next round.

http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2...Equivalent.htm

The companies tools include a sympathetic court, and TRO's, that don't seem to expire.