Originally Posted by Vertisch

Unfortunately what everyone is not discussing is that the company has offered a contract and it is an across the board cut in QOL, so they are NOT trying to maintain current status, all they want are cuts. And that was before the Pinnacle fiasco. it is only going to get worse for us.THIS is what is holding up the contract, NOT this mess with bidding.
We ALL want a good bidding system, but from our EXPERIENCE, anything with globablization is NOT good for the pilot group, only the company. No amount of work rules can change that. With what the company has already offered there is no way you can expect to negotiate the work rules you think you would need to make SmartPref acceptable. All you have to do to see how it turns out is look at Continental's pbs with globalization and it will end worse than that. We need to stop acting like children with this bidding snafu and see that the house is burning around us.