Profit Sharing Gone With IAM
Take the profit sharing check you just received. Add it to
the one you received last fall. Now think about this:
If IAM had won the election already and was in the middle of
negotiating a flight attendant contract with Delta (and IAM historically takes
5 to 8 years to settle flight attendant contracts, regardless of which airline
they are negotiating with), we could have missed out on the industry’s best
profit sharing ever! Is that a risk you’re willing to take?
Over at Hawaiian Airlines (where the profit sharing formula
isn’t nearly as generous as at Delta)
Machinists Union members are missing out on this year’s profit sharing,
because the IAM has been unable to secure a ratified contract.
Read all about it here “Hawaiian Airlines won’t give bonuses
to IAM union members.”: http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/blog/2015/02/hawaiian-airlines-won-t-give-bonuses-to-iam.html
Now think about those profit sharing checks again. Are you
willing to give that up for a roll of the dice with the IAM? How about two
years’ worth of profit sharing checks? What about five years’ worth? Are you
willing to give up eight years of profit sharing checks? What is your limit and
how much would that add up to in lost income while the IAM diddles at the
negotiations table?
Now combine the lost profit sharing with all the pay raises
that we’ll miss while IAM drags on negotiations and it all adds up pretty
quickly.
Delta flight attendants shouldn’t be so worried about the
$700 - $800 a year in dues we’d be paying to the IAM. That’s just chump change
compared to the thousands of dollars we’ll lose under IAM “representation”.
Don’t be an IAM cuckoo and don’t be an IAM chump. It’s too
expensive!
Please share this email with your friends and coworkers.
Sincerely,
Jose Arturo Ibarra
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