Originally Posted by
gloopy
BTW, is anyone else bothered that the big win in all this...the ADG increase...doesn't take effect for almost half a year, but the reserve report issues that this whole thing was based on in the first place take effect immediately? One of which was 12 hours going to 13 hours...but is now back to 12 hours with the added bonus of automatic voice mail notification, and the other was nothing on day one before noon by company memo, but now its 10am per joint agreement.
They've learned to push these things down the road (ie 3 year compliance/lookback with lots of time to fix with no penalty...also agreed to by your union with no discussion or memrat with it's members). Then, just as (insert benefit) is kicking in they get our union to negotiate the real benefit with a new contact or side letter. It's how we do business. All the while the company takes full advantage on their end from day 1.
On a side note, do you feel constructive engagement is working? Is it a good thing RA and other management are at all MEC meetings?