Originally Posted by
Lerxst
Biggest mistake was allowing the company to wash their hands of the financial responsibility to directly pay out the retro. They got what they wanted by getting both MEC's to fight each other over table scraps.
Ding Ding ^+1
We have a winner.
I stated the exact same thing to Jay P, in front of my fellow CAL 170 Pilots a few weeks ago [8 Oct 12].
This is/was a failure of the NC and the MEC Chairs for allowing this to happen. We walked right into the Company's hands on this one.
Motch
PS> we will NOT see a TA until this Signing Bonus (aka fake retro) is agreed upon between the two Unions.. and even then, it may not get past the MEC's~