Originally Posted by
satchip
Jerry, and Purple et al, you espouse a "no concession" contract in 2015. Honest question here, what incentive would management have to even negotiate?
This is an exceedingly important discussion to have. All it takes is one side to request negotiations under Section 6 of the RLA, and negotiations
must begin. It also must be
good faith negotiations or the bad faith side runs afoul of the RLA. If our demands and no concessions are easily afforded by management and not too far above our industry competitors (as ultimately decided by the NMB), the company cannot just continue to drag their feet without being rightfully labeled as negotiating in bad faith. That's their incentive guys.
Originally Posted by
satchip
Under the RLA, they can sit on our current contract forever and we would stagnate and lose ground to inflation.
No they can't satchip. Many people are wrongly stating this because of what happened with AMR, but AMR's situation was very, very different. If our demands are as I've described above, they cannot sit on our contract forever.
Originally Posted by
satchip
Are you that happy with our current deal that you would live with it for years beyond the amendable date?
I hope that after this is fully discussed by all sides, you'll see you're perpetuating a false choice that wrongly makes our pilots think there's no hope other than accepting whatever management thinks is fair.
Carl