Originally Posted by
Big E 757
I agree, they may not have said it specifically, but from what I remember, they were suggesting that if we ratify the contract, we would be hiring by the end of the year and everything would start moving upwards....oh and don't worry about the 3rd and 4th year 3% pay raises, another merger or the new FTDT regs are going to give us the leverage to negotiate a new contract WAY before those pay raises take effect.
That is a perfect cliff version of the ALPA roadshows to sell us C2012. I'm sure that is what the company told them and the believed it so I guess we can only blame ourselves for taking the bait second hand. I guess that's what we should expect when we send in the negotiators that got a weekend crash course vs. professional negotiators for the largest airline in the world.