These are current salary figures as taken from the roadshow:
CC1 Base: 34,461
DTA: 6,435
Grooming: 1,290
Misc Expenses: 3,102
Total: 45,788
CC2 Base: 35,611
DTA: 6,435
Grooming: 1,290
Misc Expenses: 3,102
Total: 46, 438
CS Base: 43,368
DTA: 6,435
Grooming: 1,290
Misc Expenses: 3,102
Total: 54,195
Super is only paid on the base salary, not on the total. The rest of our income consists of
untaxed overnight allowances, overtime paid for any duty extending
beyond 9 hours per day, income for AVL days, catering commission, draft payments and supp payments for missed breaks - which many of us do not receive. Currently, the overtime, overnight allowance, AVL and draft income is at risk.
Currently, crewing do not have a huge choice of crew to utilise on APT and AVL during disruptions. The restructure would give them greater choice and they will be calling crew with the lowest hours to avoid paying more than necessary. Do not be fooled into thinking otherwise as crewing have KPIs to meet as well.
Consider the saving and productivity gain by removing L2X, the countless hours of unpaid supp payments that the company is currently saving due to the supp forms that aren't submitted or are rejected that we can't track. Using a VERY conservative estimate of just 2 hours of unpaid supp payments per crew member, per week:
2hrs * 46 wks * 1,500 crew * $10.60 = $1,462,800
That is already a $1.46 million dollar amount that is already been saved on unpaid supp payments! This amount of free-labour isn't currently being considered as part of their wage expense but they neglect to mention this in any of their figures.
Have they looked at the over-inflated micro-management structure consisting of development managers, cabin crew operational support, service-flow analysts and review teams? Have they considered moving some of these resources back into flying?
Have they considered negotiating the current AVL structure with the Union and possibly offering a salary increase and only paying overtime rates after a minimum amount of rostered hours have been worked and allowing us the choice to decline the overtime after another limit? This is more aligned with the concept of bargaining than what is currently being offered.
We do not have an obligation to vote away current conditions simply because other airlines are offering their crew less than what we are currently earning. Read the emails from the FAAA posted in this thread regarding the management spin and AVL days and why the current structure was negotiated, do the sums and make an informed decision.
DO NOT feel guilty for valuing your exchange of labour at the current salary level, after all, they thought we were worth this much 7 years ago - why do they think we're worth less now?
