Originally Posted by
groundstop
A NO vote is a NO brainer in my opinion.
This isn't flame bait or anything. Why would you vote in a contract that has concessions? There are many concessions in this contract. The time for concessions is over, or so I thought. Why would you vote in a contract where the work rules actually reduce our pilot group? Or a contract that farms out more RJ's? The most blatant concession is a 7th short call. DALPA can't put a spin on that one!
You can sit here and argue the various pros/cons all day, but the bottom line to be is very simple. There are concessions in this contract. I thought a contract was about improving things.
It's been one of the great psychological successes of management/DALPA. They've redefined negotiations for many pilots. Used to be that concessions only belonged in negotiations when the company's finances were bad. Now after a decade of this mindset, DALPA has agreed with management that concessions are now part of negotiations even when your company is making billions. The BS about sucking it up because all these years of profits will provide us the leverage to regain our industry leading contract, is now replaced by DALPA saying our survey requests were invalid because they are "out of context". Now every gain in our TA is fully funded by concessions in other areas. And this during a time of record past profits, record current profits, and record forecasted future profits.
Carl