Redracer3136
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I'll agree with most of what you've said with exception to the vacation benefit and allowing status quo to continue.Speculating:
Most likely, all parties agreed to allow the status quo to continue. Annual raise and insurance adjust are status quo items. No one would want to deny the raise to the represented group. Legal issues, as well as principled issues would certainly arise.. Once that is agreed, the insurance kind of falls into to the same category. Status quo.
Agreeing to allow the status quo to continue, rather than challenging it, is not the same as negotiating something new that would be binding.. Nothing is binding until agreed to by all. Company, Union AND the members.
As far as the status of the vacation benefit (Assuming it was withheld) I've not seen which side chose to withhold that. I would argue that it is part of the annual compensation increase, in terms of value. Therefore it should be considered part of the raise, thus the status quo.
Not being on the committee, we are left to speculate without all of the key details.
First, you yourself even said in another thread that it was industry leading, meaning we're the only company to offer this benefit to city drivers. That in itself makes it a "new item", therefor it can't be considered "status quo" or part of the raise....it's an "added" benefit, thus it must be negotiated for the two centers currently engaged in negotiations, to which both sides agreed.
Second, after the company asked and union agreed to give the raise, the company asked for and the union agreed NOT to discuss future wages for 12 more months. That, by definition, is negotiating, not just continuing the status quo.