And you would think our company would want to resolve this quickly as the longer they take the more and more expensive it gets with retro, back pay (snap up) as they just realized with the offer that was passed to them with another year added into it.
They also realized that our economist also proved to their replaced nego team, that by moving the contract date from Aug to April did in fact so a savings for the co. of 37 million, so that too is also what changed as the union will not accept changing the contract date from Aug 16th as it has been from the get go.
All the unions current ask is for leaving everything else T/A'd alone and as is in agreement with the last co. nego team, and the simple change in economics is the real retro/backpay, snap up %, as well as more realistic outgoing raises during these record upon record profits. And we are not asking for the increase in 401K like the Pilots got, therefore we are asking for the raises instead so we can invest as we desire.
According to folks in the know if anything else is requested to be re-opened the cost will increase accordingly as well as taking longer to get an agreement. Not sure the co. wants any further delays with all the investigations going on and trying to get ETOPS done ASAP for 2019 sales to Hawaii.
Good luck to you guys on getting your new contact, hope the wait is worth it for you guys too...