Originally Posted by
Stetson29
" The MOU is not a document that makes up for our past concessions, it is trading certain things for other things, putting us all same contract moving forward. Many guys are mad about that ..."
So many of the guys that I have talked to who are voting NO on the MOU are doing so because it is not giving them retribution for the last 10 or so years of their career. They are so angry that they are not being duly compensated for the poor wages and work rules they have had to endure.
The MOU is a step forward to better pay and a better life for all. It's time to lift up our heels that were dug in in the past and move on.
No COC argument or hold out for retribution money is going to materialize.
Is it fair and just? Most could argue no, but the MOU puts us on a path for moving on and improving the life of every single US Airways pilot.
That's the biggest philosophical issue the West has with the East. Why are we all suffering for the crappy career these guys have had? Why are they trying to make up for lost time, lost upgrades, and lost wages by dragging all of us down?
A guy with 19 years on the property that was a junior F/ O for all that time had no right to expect anything other than staying in that position at the time of the merger. He still hasn't upgraded in all likely hood 6 years later. Yet by tossing ALPA and avoiding the SLI award he has locked us in to never getting a LCC JCBA, and locked himself into loa93 wages.
Now, when a merger may be imminent, and he will be dragged kicking and screaming into a new Binding SLI, he once again votes away a chance for a pay increase and contract benefits because, what, he is angry? It makes no F##%ing sense.