Originally Posted by
TheManager
You are being fearful. You are too risk adverse to use the leverage that this pilot group has. You'd rather walk away coming up short in negotiations and try to sell us in taking the next great incremental deal of crumbs.
The blow back from this strategy and ill fated decision will be facsinating to watch this summer. You all have seriously miscalculated the pilot group.
Have to give you one prop though. You all have some sheer audacity and balls for trying to force this one down on everyone in face of the external factors breathing down the MEC committee's necks. But we already are familiar with the impudence that you swim in as it has been on full display and never more so than with the handling of the FPL resolutions.
Please don't mix fearful with thoughtful. RA and DL can just step away from this and stonewall us for a long time. The NMB probably will say the company bargained in good faith and we could well be into contract 2015 by then, that is a possibility to a no vote just as getting a better deal if we vote it down is a possibility. What is all this leverage you talk about ?, the only leverage I see is a happy pilot group would probably be more productive for the company in the long run. There is risk in a no vote, there is risk in a yes vote but don't say there is no risk or revert to name calling.