Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
Are you sure my timing is off? Here's how I came up with a two year delay:
1) Six months for the NMB to call for an election and the results to be determined.
2) Assuming DPA wins, six more months for DPA to conduct fair and balanced elections to fill the slate of local and national officers, as well as staff all the committees
3) Once the officers are in, it will take another six months to develop and then survey the pilot group and figure out what they want, based on the DPA survey
4) Once those results are known, another six months to craft an opener.
Frankly, I think those are best case times - so two years is probably optimistic. Meanwhile, the rest of us tread water and watch the world go by living under "status quo" conditions.
No thanks.
A fast contract that doesn't start to fix our massive scope loans and offers little more than an initial 5-15% increase followed by full or partial COLA, and actually may end up making scope worse, is something we absolutely can't afford.
D/ALPA needs to agressively come out and state that scope reversals at all levels will occur as the highest priority or replacing the bargainig agent is the least of our worries.