Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
Page 16 says 29 months with the RLA Mediation process IN ADDITION to the other negotiating time = 48 months. What are you talking about?
Here's what I'm talking about bigbusdriver...This is the entire Page 16 that you refer to from the NMB's PowerPoint presentation to DALPA and management:
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Typical Contract Bargaining
...............Cycle
Calculate the time between amendable dates:
ADD:
+ Negotiations Prep after amendable date=0
+ Time in Direct Negotiations=18 months
+ Time in RLA Mediation= 29 months
+ Time in Ratification Process=1 month
+ Time Until Next Amendable Date=4 years
Contract Bargaining Cycle = 8 years
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Do you see the title of this slide? Notice that it says typical contract bargaining cycle? This entire briefing by the NMB was to give everyone involved a historical perspective of negotiations and the NMB's role if they are called in. If the NMB gets involved, their typical time in the process is 29 months.
Now, contrast that with the lie that sailingfun tried to perpetrate here on this forum by saying this:
Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I see the gap between the two as far to big to be bridged before we go to the NBM. The NMB has made it clear we can expect a very long process if we go that route.
Again this is going to be a long difficult contract with a lot of choices that have to be made. Don't start spending raises now. They may not come for 5 years.
The NMB said NO SUCH THING. Sailingfun simply lied about it. Why he would do that is anyone's guess. The fact that he is one of the paid "volunteer leakers" of the MEC bureaucracy should be troubling to everyone. Why does the MEC want to lower expectations so badly, they send out a leaker to state something so totally false?
Carl