Originally Posted by
jsled
OK. But if you have a TA and it gets voted down, do you still have a TA? I'm asking. I am sure there are forum experts here that would say yes, but we would need a REAL answer.
Sled
Depends on which sides Lawyer you ask?!
But the fact is... the language states
Section 13
"if the parties have not reached a tentative agreement on a JCBA by that date."
It doesn't say "If the parties have not agreed upon the Tentative Agreement" nor does it say "In the event of a TA failing to be ratified"..This is probably a hole in the TPA that was missed. It will probably lead to the company trying to go to Court stating the "intent" was otherwise. Either way, With a NO Vote the Company still has to deal with us. And the Company (especially Jeffrey and the Upper Management Team) still has to deal with a falling stock price and low Pilot moral.
[I believe that once this fails, Jeffrey is gone because He Has Failed]
The only real question is what the company does based on the level of TA Failure Vote.
A narrow margin failure will probably see the company reengage (ala AMR/APA) within a month or two and just throw some money to both the Payrates and the Retro/Signing bonus. I'd expect we'd see DAL- a few dollars. And a 10% increase to the amount...
(Still would be a NO Vote to me.. but probably would get enough NO'ers to change to YES to make it pass)
A larger margin means the above PLUS contract language fixes.
Just my opinion.
Motch