Originally Posted by
HIFLYR
Far more potential for bad than good, One good outcome out of all the airlines using PBS!! Glad you like it guess what we at FedEx do not want it, no matter how you spin it.
You haven't a read ANY of the posts I've made except the one you quoted, have you? The ones where I said I'm against PBS, as well vote NO. Because even the best PBS system out there is a concession.
Because if/when this crap comes your way, the MEC is doing the TA roadshows, you can do one of 2 things;
1) Act like the girl the "The Wedding Crashers". Where she's stomping her feet, fingers in her ears, holding her breath and turning blue because daddy isn't giving her her little way. OR...
2) Educate yourself on the PBS. And when you go to the roadshow or talk to a MEC/NC rep, you get to play "stump the chump" and ask him the tough questions they don't want to answer. Such as "hey the pay rate looks good, but why did you guys agree to a system that uses unstacking/globalization/high credit windows/no vacation low/withholds LCA checkairman lines from FO's? You guys agreed to a serious concession" etc etc etc etc. And watch him/her squirm and think about the colossal mistake they made, all the while "holding their feet to the fire". And in the process, hopefully educating some of you peers as well that may be hung up on the higher pay rate offered, etc. The choice is yours man........
Or just read below.
Originally Posted by
Gunter
Excellent background lesson.
Proves that having the wrong guys in power at a critical moment can have disastrous consequences.
I think the best way to avoid pain is to just say No to PBS.
Yep, it's a concession, plain and simple. And those of us that have had to give workrules in the past even with our minority "NO" vote know the lesson. Once you give them up, you NEVER get them back. Again, it's all about educating yourself on the crap sandwich somebody is trying to feed you.
As far as having the right guys in power. All that does is determine the suck level.