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Old 01-29-2015, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Denny Crane
Dang, I'm beginning to wonder if I still have a job! I still have not received the email saying my Surface is being sent.........

According to SD's latest, the distribution window is coming to a a close.

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I'm sure the answer is yes, but did you verify/update your address. Mine is still in the original package, but my days of being a slug are coming to a close.
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Old 01-29-2015, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by GunshipGuy
Waiting to hear if he moved to the left seat to make taxing to the gate easier.
Since there must have been a FA stuck in the cockpit, I wonder if the CA helped pick up garbage in the cabin before landing.
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:47 PM
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Rumor, I don't really believe, that RA will leave once our contact is done. I am going to say. .. no.
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Old 01-29-2015, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Hawaii50
Negotiations are negotiations though and if we look at anything the company may want as a concession...
Not "anything" that they may want. It's only a concession if it's worse than what we currently have. We accepted concessions during bad times. We do NOT need to accept concessions during these good times. We only need to stay within a "reasonable" range of our industry peers to keep the NMB happy. Currently, we lag the industry in every single contractual section. We lead in none. This is the time for contractual gains. Period.

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we're setting ourselves up to be iced for as long as the company can.
See above. This kind of wrongheaded stuff actually damages the pilot group.

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Take a look around at the other carriers in contract discussions and see how long they've been at it.
If you're saying you're not willing to wait, you're saying you'll take whatever management offers.

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Old 01-29-2015, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Hawaii50
Why is it more leverage for us?
Because management knows we're set up to make billions, and too much of it will then go to employees. Bastian stated he was losing sleep worrying that he didn't take enough from Delta pilots during BK. Can you even imagine how much sleep he's losing now? If we drag OUR feet, it will literally cost them a billion in profit sharing. That's leverage like we've never had before. If we had a union, we could use it.

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I don't view PS as a negotiable item so it's not leverage in my opinion.
If it's in the contract, it's negotiable. That's a fact of life.

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I do however want a lot more in the contract than we have now and the sooner we can get it done the better. Let's make some serious gains while the industry is printing cash.
Agreed.

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Old 01-29-2015, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
Thoughts *****es?




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Old 01-29-2015, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler



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Old 01-29-2015, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler
Not "anything" that they may want. It's only a concession if it's worse than what we currently have. We accepted concessions during bad times. We do NOT need to accept concessions during these good times. We only need to stay within a "reasonable" range of our industry peers to keep the NMB happy. Currently, we lag the industry in every single contractual section. We lead in none. This is the time for contractual gains. Period.



See above. This kind of wrongheaded stuff actually damages the pilot group.



If you're saying you're not willing to wait, you're saying you'll take whatever management offers.

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Do you feel like your recommended style of negotiation led to much of a track record at your (and my) previous carrier?
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Old 01-30-2015, 12:44 AM
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I wanna play!

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I think it's good we talk about PS because there is one thing to hash out, is which one you think is better:

Option A: $150K flight pay + $30K PS = $180K.

Option B: $180K flight pay.

Option C: $150K flight pay + 18% to restore to 2004 = $177K + 'at risk' PS = $30K = $207K

Option D: $150k flt pay + 18% to restore to 2004 = $177k + PS shift to 8% pay =$191.16k + $15,840 PS at risk = $207k

Option E: $150k flt pay + 18% to restore to 2004 = $177k + PS shift to 16% pay =$205.32k + $1680 PS at risk = $207k


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Fixed your post, added option C.
Fixed your post, added option D and E.

It's all academic(but fun), depending on the AA pilot vote and the DAL FA vote, I bet the company has a couple different options they'd like to pursue.
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Old 01-30-2015, 02:39 AM
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Originally Posted by shiznit
I wanna play!

Fixed your post, added option D and E.

It's all academic(but fun), depending on the AA pilot vote and the DAL FA vote, I bet the company has a couple different options they'd like to pursue.
Would you agree there is no way we can sell our profit sharing without taking some kind of loss?
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