Ah CPdude... The fabled pay restructure... The refuge of the gutless and delusional.
Do you seriously believe a new pay system will be beneficial to us? Grow up.
I notice the GC recently swept aside our contractual 2017 pay review (after failing to enforce the 2017 pay review promised in the 2015 pay deal) with the notion/promise/hope of a new pay structure. Here's why a revised pay restructure will be bad for you;
1. The CMP is about to present the company with an unassailable data/computing advantage over the HKAOA. They will know to the cent how much a new pay structure will cost. We will have a laptop. Of the course the company will honestly share their calculations with us.... (Cough)...
2. Presently, if the company provides you with no work (SARS, SLS, Sick) you get near full salary. Do you think a new pay system will provide that?
3. Presently, if you fly 30% more hours, you nearly double your salary. That may not happen often, but that is because our current pay system discourages work stacking. (this why the GC's proposed 3 months averaging of HDP/EFP was so profoundly dumb and dangerous). Again, do you seriously believe a new pay system will retain this feature?
4. I wager you will lose at the top and bottom end of the hours range. Of course, you will argue that any new pay structure will make it up in the middle where most rosters sit. I say there is no way that will happen. Where's our leverage for that? You will get parity at best and the company will profit at the top and bottom ends.
5. A new pay structure will take a couple of years to come into play. In the meantime the HKAOA will not press for a pay review, however inflation never sleeps. Your pay has not been reviewed since May 17. You won't have a pay structure in place before May 19 and inflation will have eroded your earnings by at least 4%. Yep, 4% is nothing, unless you equate it over 20 years, where it is effectively a year's pay!
But of course, you will argue that all this pay sacrifice is worth it for PBS. This is music to managements' ears because you are gleefully skipping towards the pilots' preverbial banana skin. To get your hands on the mythical fabled PBS you will start 4% behind and then agree permanent pay concessions in your COS. However, the Rules controlling PBS will be in a short-term RP deal. When the term of the RP deal expires, you will be invited to buy PBS back again for future pay cuts. We slip on that banana skin everytime.... the 9th floor must get a laugh out of that one time and time again!
Sorry to vomit in porridge bowl, but the promise of a new pay structure is just a poor excuse to not challenge the company now. The whole pay sacrifice for PBS is fools' gold.