Originally Posted by
Coach67
Flying the Line 3 will say they WERE the best Chest Beaters in the industry!
IT will say they initially proffered phrases like:
"Industry Leading",
"we want released now",
"we have a 99% Strike Vote",
"Hats OFF",
"we'll bring them to their knees."
Then it will say the Chest Beaters backed up and used phrase like:
"It's the best we can get",
"the NMB will park us",
"we are worried about the CAL guys MEC Chair",
"We'll never recoup the time value of money if we vote 'no'"
"What's your back up plan if you vote 'NO'"
"It was Delta's fault for caving on the 76 seater scope"
Then Flying the Line 3 will say:
They beat their chest well and then folded. The Industry hasn't recovered since!
Not sure if many of your guys are aware of this, and I know this is not really an important part of your above post,
but just to set the record straight we had 76 seaters taken from us years ago in BK with a gun to our head via 1113. We actually improved our Scope with our current contract but that was pretty easy considering our Scope sucked, but we did hold the line at 76 seats.
Our Scope is complicated and there was a formula for them to increase the number of 76 seat jets with mainline growth. Under our old contract they could have only added more 76 seaters if they parked 70 seaters. Well now they are adding more 76 seaters and parking 50 seaters vice 70 seaters. This issue has been very contentious with many of our guys. Frankly this does not bother me and I was furloughed due to weak Scope - the important number is mainline is growing from 55% to 65% of domestic flying - a solid improvement in my opinion.
Good Luck UCAL!
Scoop