Originally Posted by
contrail67
Can you please post the factual wide gap of positions. I have not seen ACTUAL numbers to see...just rumors and opinions. I would like to see those when you have time to put them up. I have never seen what we are asking for, closest I ever read was someones opinion of $$ we were apart but that was a long time ago.
I understand that there is a gap..thus not having a JCBA yet. I am just curious of how one can be so certain that it will be beyond 10 months till anything is done. I have seen contracts in other companies that I have worked for get settled much quicker than anticipated.
2012 airline industry outlook - Page 2 - Chicago Tribune
Read the weekly Joint Negotiating Committee update. I haven't read any statements from them indicating progress for quite a while.
Add to that the election of Jay Heppner to MEC Chair. Since he'll be leaving the JNC, that will slow down negotiations.
AMR's bankruptcy will put further downward pressure on any offer from management.
Quantify the financial synergies that UAL will gain with a combined pilot list. Now quantify the amount of additional wages that the pilots are demanding in JCBA negotiations.
- Until the synergies minus additonal wages is zero or positive, there is no incentive for the company to complete the JCBA.
Under the TPA, there is no mechanism for the pilots to obtain work action (aka strike).
The estimates that I've seen put a new pilot contract north of an additional $600 million annually. The company is negotiating with multiple unions; all want pay raises.
To be clear, you misinterpreted my post. I asked why you thought that there would be a JCBA within the next 10 months. I considered that to be a long enough timeframe for specific answers. What do you consider to be a reasonable timeframe to have a JCBA completed and what's your rationale?