Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
The APA strayed outside that zone and that is what got them parked. USAPA strayed outside that zone that is what got them parked.
APA did far more than that. The NMB came in to find almost every section of the contract open. They don't do that. Their charter is to try to narrow the differences when the end game is near...not negotiate every section of the contract. Then APA was demanding 50%+ pay raises to restore them at a time when AMR was losing money and AMR's competitors were in bankruptcy. That's what APA did. I'm sure you'll agree that was a lot more than "straying outside the zone."
Regarding USAPA, being parked was
precisely their strategy. If a PWA had ever been agreed to, the Nicolau SLI would have automatically been implemented.
This is why your use of these two historical events as a reason to fear the NMB is so disingenuous and damaging to Delta pilots. You're trying to get us to accept defeat before negotiations begin. You did the same thing with C2012. I just don't know why you do it.
Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
If you think the zone of reasonableness includes management being prohibited from achieving any of their goals, absent zero cost changes (I would love to have some examples of no cost changes to our contract, because after costing out two of them, I find everything has a value) then I think you are kidding yourself. I have never seen any negotiation where one side is barred from trying to solve at least some of their economic issues.
Agreed. "barred" is too strong a word and if I implied that, I was wrong to do so.
Carl