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"I think the answer is voting YES for 44% less results in exactly 56% more than you will have if you vote no."
That assumes that all I have is the paycheck & benefits from the company - which is a bad assumption.
"However, I suspect it will not be 44% out of your paycheck, part is in W2, part is in less people getting the same amount of work done."
That's why I said 44% in pay, productivity, and benefits. Based on what Siegel was quoted as saying a month or more ago, it works out to about 20% pay, 14% productivity, and 9% benefits on average. Presumably, we pilots will take the biggest his since we're paid more. I'm assuming (and that's all) about 35% in pay, 5% in productivity (trips are mostly hard time now), and 15-20% in benefits. That puts me at the level of some of the better "Express" type carriers. If you work in the industry - especially in one of the groups covered by a contract - you know that what is given up with the stroke of a pen takes many years to get back, if ever.
If you'll read a few of my older posts, you discover two things.
First, it will make little difference to me if the doors close tomorrow or I have this job till retirement (and that's at current pay, etc). If you work in the industry - especially in one of the groups covered by a contract - you know that what is given up with the stroke of a pen takes many years to get back, if ever. What we agree to today will be basically what the pilotts remaining at this airline will be working for until they retire. That is my concern.
Second, I don't believe I have ever told anyone else how they should react to the demands for more concessions. I have explained how I feel about this issue, challenged those who feel differently to explain why if they haven't, challenged others "facts" when I know them to be wrong, and challenged those who presume to know what is better for me than I do - nothing more.
At least in the unionized groups, I would hope that everyone gets to vote on any further concessions. If the "Yes" vote wins, so be it. Likewise if the "No" vote wins.
Jim