I don't have to make mountains out of mole hills devinehover, SAA management is doing that by themselves. I don't know how much the entry level P3 salary you spoke about is but I can bet you its a hellava lot more than what the tech's get (you know... the guys that keeps the devinely hovering...).
SAA decided we can't have increases at this stage but they want to adjust our allowances. I.a.w. we get shafted on pension and overtime again. That adjustment has not been agreed apon incidently. Some of the guys starting at express now will be getting a basic of aroundabout 20k a month, thats without any certs. A single cert tech at SAA gets a basic of just above the 11k mark. More or less the diffirence between a mountain and a mole heap wouldn't you say?
To top it all off we had to hear that amids all this fighting (a losing battle) for an increase the company decided to give the managers quite a hefty increase while refusing to give the tech's any increase. That came into effect on last week monday.
It's funny how Kaya told the papers that an agreement has been signed with the unions and that everybody is happy. I overheard someone saying that 80% of the tech's at SAA is looking for other work, does that sound like a happy workforce? The only people NOT looking for other work is the guys close to pension and the ones that know they wouldn't make it outside because they are completely incompetant.