I've been with CAL before BK and have forgotten more stuff about about all the backroom politics between the company and IAM than you will ever know in your short career here(After you "left" DL).Tell me why there was no reason to release the vote numbers for TA2?Why was our vacation accrual shortened from 4.09 per day@28hrs per vac week down to 3.00 hrs pewr day(now 21 hrs per week?) Sick hrs earned each month reduced from 5 to 4? What about sick bank being capped at 83 hrs per month,so unless you still have over 500 hrs in your sick bank after you call in sick,the max you get paid is 83 hrs/month/What about the great side letter that states our medical will only be 20% maximum for whatever it costs the company,conveniently forgetting the fact that its the company's medical plan that is managed by different health care providers,so the "cost" figures put out by the company can and always will go up.
A telltale sign for anyone with half a brain is that the company helped the union put out the disinformation into our v-files in the crew room,and also CO paid to have the TA's printed on their dime.Is that the definition of a company union or what?You ballyhoo the high hourly rate,but if it takes a few extra days to get that high amount instad of getting it through trip rigs and duty rigs,you are looking through rose colored glasses.
Speaking of these 6 figure FA's,lets see how this works.FA Bob works 20 days a month doing EWR-LAS turns .So thats 200 hrs @ 48.15/hr.That comes out to 9600.00/monthly and with incentive pay every 3 months,and extra 500.00 per quarter which comes out to115k plus 2k more for incentive.Lets go international. Our highest time trips are India and HKG out of EWR. Assuming FA Connie can squeeze6 30 hrs trips onto her line(for you non CO people,our great contract lets you piggyback and India trip that arrives in EWR after a 15 hr flight and still be legal to go out to india the same night for another 15 hrs maronathon.)and @ 55hrs per diem @ 2.85 x 6 trips=another 900.00 which comes out to a little over 10g's a month.So yes a CO FA can make 6 figures,but at what cost? How many FA's even have the ability to network themselves to get these productive trips?If a person has no life or lives on the plane or in the crew room,thats not for me to judge,but when I have to work with someone who is so zonked out by all this flying,then it does affect me and believe me,I see this a lot.These people wont be around to collect their pension.How many other airlines let their cabin crew do unlimited polar crossings oer month with minimal rest between trips while the union says their is no proof flying like that has any effect on ones body? When CO mgmt says jump,the union says how high?
Speaking of pensions,why is it when the IAM offered the CO FA's a chance to get into their IAMNP,the multiplier was below that of every other IAM local and district, or the fact that there is no lump sum available? Could it be the IAM would love to get their hands on our money to help offset the decline in membership in the IAM while Buffenbarger rides around in his own private jet? Or to use it as a negotiation tool just in case we had to vote to switch unions. AFA and any other airline union is far far far from being perfect,but the ineptitude of IAM DL 142 knows no bottom.Elections postponed again. What a shock.
Which union represented TWA FA's and sold them out,leaving them to be stapled at the bottom of AA's seniority list? Now one of those ex TWA FA's who sold her fellow crew members out is some sad rep in WR traeling on positive space passes to "commute" to "work"with a lot less seniority than other Fla commuters,all with a wink and nod from the company.
Don't think it could happen if UA and CO hook up? Read some history son and maybe you'll learn that CO FA's were AFA a long time ago and left because we thought AFA was dominated by one airline(Rhimes with U Dyed It). Had enough? Ther's plenty more,but you're just happy you didn't get furloughed.
Did I mention the union got a bump in hrs paid,by the company, for reps to sit at the desk in the crew room,but ask 3 of them a question and you will get 4 different answers.
Pay for training was cut while pay for the reps went up. Nice.
I hope you aren't as wicked in person as you are on the bulletin boards,no matter what name you use.