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#2901
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Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 478
Please recheck your facts. The current rate is 1.90% and most likely down to 1.85%.
#2903
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Joined APC: Feb 2014
Posts: 463
I'd gladly pay more for better representation. Focusing only on what you pay without accounting for results (ROI) is short sited. When you hire someone to represent you and they subsequently undermine your objectives, refusing to represent what you ask for (doing their own thing making deals with the opposition), that's a poor investment at any price. That's true of any vendor.
For an extreme example, if your life was on trial using a public defender (who spent little time preparing your case) at little to no cost, going up against Shapiro on the other side...would you be getting a bargain?
Of course price isn't everything. When I sit down with a professional service provider I'm considering hiring, the first thing I look at is their ability/willingness to publicly state the objective then create the process and support to obtain that objective.
For an extreme example, if your life was on trial using a public defender (who spent little time preparing your case) at little to no cost, going up against Shapiro on the other side...would you be getting a bargain?
Of course price isn't everything. When I sit down with a professional service provider I'm considering hiring, the first thing I look at is their ability/willingness to publicly state the objective then create the process and support to obtain that objective.
#2904
Now Sailingfun, care to actually answer the point of the topic, or do you need to study what the next deflection should be?
Carl
#2905
This I agree with. 4-5 is pretty normal. It was short (only extended us by 3 years beyond the previous amendable date) and came early, but not "very short". If it had been 2.5 years in duration (2 years beyond the previous amendable date) then maybe. I wish it were. Exchanging openers this past April might have worked out pretty good.
#2906
Both of those have certainly come true.
#2907
Except it wasn't a short duration contract. 3.5 years is not short.
We're exactly out of phase Karnak...that's the whole point. Our 3% this year is occurring during wildly high corporate profitability. All forecasts show our 3% next year will be occurring in a time of similar wildly high profitability. If our E&FA guys could actually forecast, these would be the times to be getting (and easily justifying) 10% gains. What are we getting during this time of extraordinary profitability? 3%, 3%.
Worse yet, some are forecasting a possible economic downturn in 2016 as part of normal business cyclicality. If that happens, we could be under pressure to minimize gains...after we squandered our huge profitability of 2014/2015 on raises of 3%, 3%. Preventing this is why we have Economic & Financial analysts at ALPA.
So now we're being called the "Angry Birds" inside the DALPA echo chamber? Fabulous.
But you again purposely miss the point. We "Angry Birds" aren't ALPA Economic & Financial Analysts. We're line pilots. We hire ALPA to do that for us. Our predictions of corporate profitability and ability to profit from those predictions do not change the fact that ALPA E&FA recommended 3%, 3% raises during times of enormous corporate profitability.
Look forward to your next deflection.
Carl
Worse yet, some are forecasting a possible economic downturn in 2016 as part of normal business cyclicality. If that happens, we could be under pressure to minimize gains...after we squandered our huge profitability of 2014/2015 on raises of 3%, 3%. Preventing this is why we have Economic & Financial analysts at ALPA.
But you again purposely miss the point. We "Angry Birds" aren't ALPA Economic & Financial Analysts. We're line pilots. We hire ALPA to do that for us. Our predictions of corporate profitability and ability to profit from those predictions do not change the fact that ALPA E&FA recommended 3%, 3% raises during times of enormous corporate profitability.
Look forward to your next deflection.
Carl
#2908
Carl
#2909
No it's not Alan. Historically, our contracts have ranged from 3 to 4 years. I don't recall a single one that was 5, but there might have been one. 3.5 years is smack in the middle. Not "short" as claimed by sailingfud, and not "very short" as claimed by Karnak.
Hopefully? We shouldn't be forecasting based on hope. Our E&FA guys recommended accepting 3%, 3% during times of wildly high corporate profitability. Their job is to forecast. We're squandering wildly profitable years with 3%, 3% thanks to their forecasting.
Carl
The point is that it was signed on the heels of a quarter in which Delta lost money, and came with an amendable date that would have us open during a period of hopefully huge profits and substantial gains among our fellow carriers.
Both of those have certainly come true.
Both of those have certainly come true.
Carl
#2910
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
Posts: 19,595
[QUOTE=Carl Spackler;1748967]C2012 will be 3.5 years in duration on the amendable date. How you can call that a "very short contract" is beyond me.
Really it was 3 and you know that. Tell us about the length of the contracts at other airlines!
Before any one feels to bad for Carl remember his hourly pay rate at NWA before the merger was 178 an hour. The tough NWA MEC had locked that in for 6 years with tiny raises.
Carl then 178.00
Carl today 340.00 effective pay rate with the DC plan and profit sharing.
Carls effective raise since the merger by the totally worthless ALPA?
90% plus a bit!
Epic fail according to Carl!
Really it was 3 and you know that. Tell us about the length of the contracts at other airlines!
Before any one feels to bad for Carl remember his hourly pay rate at NWA before the merger was 178 an hour. The tough NWA MEC had locked that in for 6 years with tiny raises.
Carl then 178.00
Carl today 340.00 effective pay rate with the DC plan and profit sharing.
Carls effective raise since the merger by the totally worthless ALPA?
90% plus a bit!
Epic fail according to Carl!
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