Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
As for the last part, of course they've had a hand in it. Do you think any of them called SWAPA while everything was going down to ask that we get a more fair shake?
You should've voted yes on the first offer.
Many of your gripes would've been negated by doing so.
84% of both pilot groups voted yes for the second offer. You had the
exact same "hand" in the outcome as we had.
Roughly 16% of us on
both sides wanted you to get a "more fair shake" via arbitration, but the majority of
both groups outvoted us.
One of their favorite sayings is "Well, neither of us had any control over this, so we just need to get along and move on". Yeah, bull$7it. That's a coping mechanism when someone's feeling uncomfortable with the situation that they're in.
If it were up to
me, SW would never have acquired AT, and we'd all be happy. I'd be most "comfortable" had this entire nightmare NEVER happened, but I had
no say, other than my no vote, in the matter.
The ONLY RSW guys who've made out on this deal are the senior FO's, and IMHO, that will be a short lived victory as the FAT guys start displacing them.
For everyone else on the SW side, this entire debacle was, at best, a net zero, and for anyone south of the 50% point in either seat, a major kick in the nuts.