About this episode

The episode discusses Article 9 of the JCAM, focusing on salaries, COLAs, and wage provisions for carrier technicians.

Today we continue our reading of the JCAM with Article 9. This article covers our salaries and our COLAs. We'll go over what a "diet COLA" is, and how we're all actually getting screwed by our COLA system. We also go into the wage provisions for carrier technicians.

People in this episode

Host: Alan Gegax

Topics covered

• salaries
• COLA
• wage provisions
• carrier technicians
• diet COLA

Keywords

• JCAM
• salaries
• COLA
• diet COLA
• carrier technicians

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JCAM

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