Agreed, well put COL-ANGUS.
By accepting one confirms your worth, going after more afterwards is not professional.
The precedence needs to be set first up.
We need a moral victory more so than financial gain. Even if they come back with a 1% (5/4/4) gain and we accept that and move on. We'll come out on top ready to stand together with confidence for RP's that follow.
It's via our unity of a CC threat which got us the 4/3/3 offer in the 1st place, so don't suddenly say it was an easy win and on the plate decision. We "bold" union members made that available for ALL of the pilot body as a starting point. So don't say we voted down YOUR payrise it was never yours without our pressure.
If it were not the case our managers would have presented an easy offer of 4.5% 9 months ago, together with other 'fuel saving' staff members.
The reality is without the union we would have got a ZERO pay offer. Via 'potential' unity we achieved less than others and inflation. We collectively & patiently and democratically voted No and asked them for 5/4/4 with no remittance. The company have now called our bluff, brave folks stand tall & cowards throw there toys out the cot.
United & proudly I stand with the majority of my fellow professional crew for COLA. But more importantly for a psychological win. We should only pitch for a some gain and thus put more emphasis on the "psychological win"
Last edited by crewsunite; 27th October 2014 at 05:00.