Originally Posted by
ReasonableMan
Well, we don't have a contract now. It's just a tentative agreement. The company is not bound to anything but the current contract which has no language whatsoever concerning the 717s, new pay rates, new duty rigs, etc... If not ratified, our current contract will be the starting point and the company will continue marching along and whatever happens in between now and the time we reach another agreement is what we will have to accept and deal with.
The 717 is a DC-9. It will clearly get DC-9 rates. If we can't agree, it goes to an arbitrator and I'll gladly risk it because we will get DC-9 pay for it, period. Zero risk. And under our current contract, management has zero, nada, zilch ability to put the 717 at DCI. None whatsoever. They can't do it unless we're on strike and if we're on strike putting DC-9's at DCI won't get them a drop in the ocean of what they bleed every day even if they can find scabs to fly the up-gauged RJ routes. Empty threat. Bluff called.