Originally Posted by surreal1221

Wish I had the time to discuss this with you on the phone, but that last sentence is false.

I highly recommend you read the transition and process agreement and read what it has to say about the Company entering into seperate negotiations with either pilot group individually. Once you see that the TPA secures the right for the pilot group being left out to be present during those types of negotiations, you'll realize that the ASA MEC is actually taking a respectable position of fighting for what is right for OUR pilots.

If the TPA allows our negotiators to be present while the company negotiates with XJT over large two-class aircraft (which it does), then I sure as hell want them there to make sure they can see first hand how low some parties are willing to go on said pay rates. Or, perhaps, how high - and to then secure THOSE rates also for our pilots.

Unless, of course, you would like our brothers over there to undercut us on the rates we currently have - thus reducing our ability to increase, much less protect, our large dual class rates.

That "vague" letter today, albeit maybe not as strong as I had hoped (trust me...I voiced my concerns about the lack of additional context), is full of enough details for anyone who has been following current events going back to the first XJT JetLink Comm stating that the Company is interested in establishing dual class payrates.

I'll be happy to talk about this tomorrow if you'd like. Wife would kill me if she knew I was handling this ridiculous stuff at 9:15, lol.