Originally Posted by
slowplay
That someone that told you didn't understand the answer as I heard it.
The NC chair said there would be a negotiator's notepad coming out that will provide an apples to apples comparison of the public portions of the AF and KLM contracts. That includes pay. He commented that unlike the US, the European CLA's were private documents and that he would have to send the notepad for their review. He also said their workrules were similar to ours, but their pay structure was completely different (KLM salaried and AF a mix of salary and hourly). He did point out that the French get 48 days of vacation mandated by French law, so it's not something that's in their contract. I'd sure like that piece here.
Smells like the classic control of information. DALPA has a desire and a need to control and manipulate the message. Example: the contract survey with leading ?'s, and the mirroring to select carriers in the contract comparison.
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Now, we are still waiting for a promised comparison to AFKLM with less than two weeks prior to the closing of the contract survey.... more controlled information.
Slowplay is already massaging and molding the information, or truth, so that it can be presented in a form that is exceptable to DALPA and their goals and agenda. Again, their theme of manipulation. I say, release it in its raw form. We are intelligent enough to see and determine the good, the bad and the ugly.
**Post Script. I searched and could find no reference to European CLA's being private documents. Could you please site your sources on this Slowplay?**