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12-11-2022, 02:56 PM
#332
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Allowing the company to adjust solely first year rates at 98.5% of 2nd year pay. The company's only concern is attrition mostly in the first few years of fo's and attracting new fo's. So giving them this without pushing higher rates for everyone else is a conession because there's no going back once we give them this. Imo opinion we have two major points of leverage the first and biggest being the attrition/hiring problem. Second is below current industry pay. The second has never been a huge urgency for management to want to negotiate correct me if I'm wrong.
12-11-2022, 02:59 PM
#333
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Posts: 389
You get what you negotiate and everyone should have been negotiating for max tax free per diem all along. It doesn’t cost management a dime more to give us money as tax free per diem than it does as salary, but it’s state and federal income tax free up to the allowable limits. For my spouse and I that’s 24% and soon to be 32%. If we lived in CA (which fortunately we no longer do) you could tack on another 9.3%. A tax free dollar will buy a third more than a taxed dollar, but you still hear people saying don’t count per diem because it isn’t pay.
12-11-2022, 03:05 PM
#337
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Joined APC: Mar 2018
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Thanks my spelling is terrible English is like my 4th language but while that's a true Concession I think giving anything that hurts our leverage in this case would be considered conceding something that's beneficial to us in the given circumstance.
12-11-2022, 03:06 PM
#339
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fair enough, wasn’t trying to poke fun…
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