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Looks like the 13% wage cut is added to the 14% cut in January so it turns out to be a total of about 27% cut since the first of the year. Is that what is happening here?

Mikey you say: No, we wont just go away tail between our legs. We will stand tall and get the contract we deserve. I hope you are right but I don''t know if I want to wait long enough for that. I may be an old man before we are appreciated and compensated properly for what we do.

So from now on we will have to just follow in line like good little sheep. We won''t dare think of going out on strike because we MIGHT get worse than what the company will offer us. Of course our unions will recommend that we just go along with what the compay offers and maybe next tme we''ll...

So will world events make fence riders decide to hold out hope that they can fight for less sweeping changes?

The talking heads think Sadam may have been killed in today''s bombing. How will it effect us and our TA vote if before the vote is complete the outcome of the war is seen as certain and very soon. Fuel prices come down and people start to desire to take those summer vacations they thought...

Facts are this statement---"It was not unusual for a mechanic to make $120,000.00 per year before the last raise."---simply isnt true.

I would still like to hear an answer for my origional question. (Does anyone know if this is the first two days of each illness?) Or is this just the first two days used each year? Any one out there got the real scoop on this issue???

WOW $120,000!!! that sounds more like HOPEFUL than reality. I know a lot of topped out mechanics in Tulsa who worked a lot of overtime but I never have heard of anyone making that kind of money. Sounds like one of those legendary guys that we hear about but no one actually knows. I think I...

MD80AA, I guess fleet service clerks don''t have anyone amoung them that has ever abused sick time. Personally I have made it to a couple of the perfect attendance banquets and wasn''t that impressed. Guess I''ld rather have my employer compensate me for my efforts than throw a party where...

Can someone please tell me what happened to cut the mechanic''s sick time pay in half for the first 2 days??? Does anyone know if this is the first two days of each illness? I have a reoccuring problem with an illness that from time to time causes me to miss a day or two. To me the sick time...

And I guess this is supposed to make me like the man?

Whatever the market will dictate. Supply and demand says that more skilled, highly trained workers who are harder to find should be paid more to attract them. However, they must also be smart enough to negotiate the higher pay they deserve.

Production should go through the ceiling with that kind of agreement!!! I kknow I''m inspired to hit it. Or hit something...or someone...

You know there are probably not two of us that agree on everything. But I hope everyone of us can agree on one thing. We suppport our troops! I also have co-workers over there. My daughter who just graduated last year from high school has several friends that she was in school with who are...

WNP you just had to go and get political on us didn't you? I believe you ask for all the criticism you get from Buck and any other of the right-wingers present. I thought this was about AA being more productive.[img src='http://www.usaviation.com/idealbb/images/smilies/5.gif']