So you aren't good enough to get merit pay? Otherwise why would you
complain? It has always been amusing to me that the majority of union
members consider themselves to be below average, hence are afraid of
merit pay. Sort of a reverse Lake Wobegon effect, I guess.

It's a sad thing that they only reserved 0.1%. In the real world it
would be at least half, possibly even 100%.

On 7/28/2006 8:32 PM, cosmicPeach wrote the following:
July 12, 2006 FAA Preparing to Give Away Annual Pay Raises Again

Today we learned that the FAA is again planning to spend the .1% of the
annual OSI they held back from the January pay raise. In a bold effort
to alienate more employees and drive morale even lower, the Agency will
again hand out as cash awards, the money they refused to award to
employees as annual increases to their base pay. I wrote a letter to
Service Area Directors Hudson and Tarrh expressing the Union's concern
with this process of giving away money with no process to make the
determination of who gets the money; how one goes about earning the
award or why it's acceptable to give it away now rather than apply it to
base pay in January. I also sent the letter to Steve Zaidman, Russ Chew
and Marion Blakey.