factual and balanced
factual- the offer is not asking for 2 to 3 extra hours a week, it is 4 extra hours a week to our timesheet
factual- annual leave loading currently keeps up with our salaries but under your proposal it will stand still forever
factual- the statement about paying ALL overtime at double time is not true because working on available days and on days off is overtime above our hours and these are not paid at double time.
factual- the only certainty on offer is higher hours, no rest breaks on 4 sectors; no backpay for the contribution we have made to the airline over the last 12 months, no increase to our allowances, a reduction in overtime as currently paid; no guarantee that we can take 6 weeks a year.
balanced- 8.3% increase in hours per year does not balance with 3.5% or 3% increase in money each year.
factual- for 3 years you have been asking for higher hours and for 3 years we have answered you 9hours 45minutes is the most we can do. before the tough times 5% was on offer, money cant buy zero exhaustion, and we dont want to have to prove month in month out whether we are exhausted or not; we want the work rules to be cope-able.