The 1108 MEC had to have been paid off by Ricki or the Options Mgt board because there is no way in good faith that the MEC should have even presented the current TA to the pilots. As it stands, the bottom 85% of the pilots on the seniority list will take a pay cut over the life of the contract with the added work days they receive every 6 months with the schedule transition and the 16+2 guys will loose up to an additional 10 days off a year on top of the additional work days assigned in the transitions. The MEC will tell you that you received a 10% raise and 3 months retro raise, but every cent of that is lost in the lost overtime days that are not paid in the transitions and days off lost. Each subsequent year of the contract will be a pay cut with the all of the forced uncompensated overtime in the transitions every 6 months. This will add up to over 9000$ to some pilots.
The pilots that are laid off will not be recalled by the end of the year and will not get their 10% raise or 3 months retro raise, all they get is to come back at their old wage when they left and be "red circled" till their new reduced pay scale catches up to them and then they will take a pay cut on the uncompensated overtime they will be forced to fly every 6 months. This will add up to 14 days of additional work that is not paid and if they are assigned a 16+2 they can loose even more with up to 10 days off lost per year.
Now that the reality of the sh!t sandwich of a contract the MEC sold out the Flops pilots on is sinking in, the MEC will have an impossible time collecting back dues as all of the pilots see this as a waste and paying for a pay cut!
