Originally Posted by
stbloc
I love reading this. You guys are all holding out for the moon and you will end up with nothing. Once chapter 11 happens you will end up working with a USAIR type contract and your pension stripped. Time to man up and relize your company is in the wost financial shape of any large carrier. I understand the desire for a better contract this is not the time to be fight. I would worry about saving your job and pension first then fight another day.
Lemme guess - you moonlight as sound-bite writer for airline management lackeys?? I mean really, it's apparent you've never been confronted with said "bk predicament"...or if you have, you've soon forgotten all the valuable lessons to be gleaned.
Let the goons threaten to lock the doors, then offer to buy the padlock. ANYTHING given away under (perceived) duress will NOT come back for a decade.