Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
They got a usable reserve system back,
That was a huge "hammer" that they needed. Desperately. If they pushed it to a grievance, they would have lost all or most of it. Slam dunk. This was critical for them, despite how cool they played it.
and we got back what we had before -- the ability for a long call pilot to turn his phone off for any length of time up to 12 hours, so long as he would then be in a position to report 12 hours after he turned the phone off.
We did get "what we had before" even though we gave up a lot more to get it.
We inherited a hammer we weren't expecting to get. Then we sold it for way less than market value. We did get a gain out of it though.