Originally Posted by
Hueypilot
I agree. Looks like we'll get to see who blinks first pretty soon. I don't think the company *wants* arbitration, otherwise we would already be headed there. That being said, Glass is doing his job well, hoping our side will simply shut up and take the money and go with their proposals.
Note they have carefully worded their ultimatum, which is that we must "work within their framework". Fine, we can do that, but it means the company must be willing to proffer some alternatives with those particular asks. Otherwise it appears we will head to arbitration, and the company essentially loses face. It was also interesting to note that we'd likely lose a lot of the other previously-agreed-to TAs, like uniform allowances and paid moves.
The union guys also didn't answer the first part of the question, and that was
"Of the 7 things proposed by management that they want changed, could those be changed in arbitration if we go that route" (paraphrased)
It would certainly suck to go to arbitration and lose most of what we'd lose if we accept the deal. Management seems to really want to change those items, specifically. The 2 hour callout and overnight landing currency req'd would have very little monetary value.