Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The company knows they can exploit the process to keep us working under the current agreement for at least 4 years and probably longer based on history.
Just so we're clear...We have a
requirement in our contract to seek mediation no later than end of March 2013 (90 days after our current contract's amendable date). The typical length of time in NMB mediation is 29 months. Ours would be much less given the fact that we're not going to be making the mistake APA guys made. But even
IF it's 29 months, that puts us at 32 months after our contract's amendable date.
My opinion is that most pilots would be willing to wait less than 3 years after our contract's amendable date to get it right. But I think the company underestimates what would happen to the operation due to the anger we would be feeling. We give up 46% of pay and many other things to save the company. It works. The company is hugely profitable 2 years before our contract's amendable date. The company does
nothing to shorten our time with these bankruptcy wages. Instead saying: "a contract is a contract." Fine. But to then try and further increase that time with bankruptcy wages by exploiting the section 6 process would be the last straw for many. That anger would show up in operational statistics that management could not handle.
Carl