Original Message

when year over year you only ever see 1%

and inflation is 20%

do you think it really matters?

PHI has always low balled mechs.

It's in the play book.

WHY do you think in 2002 they had to play catch up and give all of AVIONICS a 19% raise in the month of MAY?

This is what they do.  1% here 1.2% there....before you know it you are scratching making peanuts for the last 15 years, the competition offers 10% more pay a year, people jump ship, then PHI has to come across with matching or better to keep the people they have left from leaving also.

It's cyclical.