Originally Posted by inline five

I'm still very confused on this whole "burn the house" mentality.

Either we get a deal done here or we go to arbitration.

If we go to arbitration, everyone pretty much knows what the outcome is.

The issue with the companies proposal is scope. There are some minor small things they also want, like night currency slots, which IMO would be a good use of that sim slot rather than have it go unused, and in comparison we get a fairly large raise NOW. This amounts to tens of thousands of dollars for the senior folks, and not an insignificant amount for the junior guys.

It sounds like the APA is approaching this like normal negotiations, when in fact it's not. Just like the FA's, if the company says no dice or we say no dice, we go back to what was originally agreed to. Not a bad deal, but assuming scope is a moot point in the offer I'm just not seeing how what we are getting is bad. We are not in section 6 negotiations now, we don't have any legal power to strike if we don't get what we want.