Originally Posted by
tsquare
You and Carl and the others in that crowd impress me as having zero confidence in the capabilities of those negotiators to extract the best deal they can. Is it that you believe they don't have to live under the contract? It makes no sense to me other than blood lust. You just want to fight... nothing else makes any sense.
I can't speak for Carl, but yes, you are right. I have very little faith in the NC and those who direct them. Let me see if I can sum up my skepticism.
When the company sits across from us, there is no doubt what their one and only motivation is: To ruthlessly cut our costs, all to please the shareholders. That's it.
When the NC sits down at the table, I have no idea what motivates them, or more to the point, what motivates their direction from the MEC. Political turf? Personal power consolidation? Maintaining a cushy FPL position? Jockeying for a management gig? Egos? Higher office? Rekindling a four-year-old failed resolution? Let's not forget Moak's influence.
Who knows, the line pilot might even make their top 10 priorities.
There are too many political intrigues, personal agendas, and institutional roadblocks at DALPA to think the line pilot is of any meaningful significance to the MEC/NC/power-weilding unelected bureaucrat factions who are all fighting to make their favorite flavor of sausage. The reps who haven't been corrupted by one or more of the above factors are steamrolled by those who have been.
Any benefit the line pilot receives as the result of negotiations is simply a happy coincidence, a byproduct of the above factors, plus those which we don't even know about.
p.s...Scrappy was most certainly not subjected to the contracts he negotiated, was he?