I am not defending it . I have not seen it. But the economics of it are not as important to me as work rules and grievences. And you are attacking the contract you have not read.
Acer has just posted a general overview of the contract from the TDU, I suggest you all look at it.
The only thing we get in this contract is the raises, split every 6 MTHS. over 5 years. Overtime after 8, 10 cent raise for those on the road with delay pay.
Work rules and greivances, according to this site.
We loose the contribution to the 401k, with no improvments in the pention.Time off stays the same, personal\sick stays the same, I wonder if we get the golden time and time and a half for holidays
Everything else is the same, and locked in for 5 yrs. At this point and three publications later we are not sure wether it is a 5 or 6 year contract.
And this is the Hybrid contract we are hearing is a combination of the NMFA, and Small package? The amazing hybrid, I must say I did expect a little more after 1 year of negotiations.
And this is locked in for 5 years at the least, I must admit, we have half of what we heard and half of what we wanted.
I guess this could be something to build on, what were they thinking, a raise split twice a year? what the hell is that?
Everything is company controlled, except the work rules. Boy I guess I do owe skeeter an apolagy to a degree, I would half to say it is a bit SUB-PAR.
The company said improvments would and are comming, but we are locked into this for 5 years, they could have hammered this out in a month , with a couple of crayons. I am sure someone is laughing at this thing somewhere.
And you are right when you say we have not read the work rules yet, that would be the kicker.