Originally Posted by
BScaler
v) Elimination of JFO HDP rate. FO rate paid from starting in the right hand seat for SO upgrading. 15% increase.
Considering that this particular candidate would be paid current JFO1 salary to start, with no chance of skipping JFO2 step as most current Officers do, it is a pitiful 'hand back'. The 15% increase referred to, is 15% of approximately 5% of an Officers salary. Read less than 1% difference in take home pay! Why are we given such misleading numbers?
Because the AOA GC has AGAIN been trying to "White Wash" the members into signing up to a poor agreement.....Just like the First Housing Agreement, the 49'ers and RP07..... No amount of "sugar coating" in the President's missives can convince otherwise....It's so obvious it's pathetically transparent !
This agreement (DEFO) should have been vigorously endorsed by the GC as "UNACCEPTABLE" and shouldn't even have gone to a vote.... The fact that it did should have elicited an endorsement by the GC, to the members, encouraging to vote in precisely that manner.
Who exactly are they representing here ?
The vote is "NO CONFIDENCE" !