Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
The best strategy to handle what you have so accurately posted is to use the SWAPA contract in it's entirety as the leverage we need. We know that it would put management in a difficult spot to have to begin dismantling all of the outsourcing contracts, and as such, they would hate it. If we are willing to be 100% for it, the NMB would have a dilemma. There's no way our position could be deemed unreasonable, thus putting management in the difficult spot of wanting numerous changes to the SWAPA while we would say we're just ducky with every item in it. For every item that the NMB had sympathy with management for changing, our position would be: "OK...what are you willing to give us for that?"
Carl
I for one (and I thought most of us) were talking about
sunsetting these contracts (at least on the regional level), as opposed to dismantling them. This is just a WAG, but I would venture to say the legal obstacles of dismantling regional contracts tomorrow would put the negotiating price outside of our collective reach. Codeshares and JVs may be in a different category, and we may be able to handle them right out of the gate. In any event, in the survey I said that I would be willing to wait the time it takes to sunset, if in fact we bring this flying back to in-house.