WRT
Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
When asked what the company wanted, RA started with removing inefficiencies from the contract. The first (maybe only) inefficiency mentioned was FOs bidding w/LCAs.
So I'd guess that DAL will be asking DALPA amend that portion of the contract. We all know that DALPA will be happy to throw that small bone the company's way. DALPA isn't going to fight for something that affects a tiny number of pilots. DALPA will give it up with a few other tiny inefficiences, negotiate a new sick leave bank, and agree on industry leading pay rates. We'll be voting this fall.
and this:
Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
It won't work. I felt like you do. Then I saw the data. I came away going "No wonder the company is ****ed about sick leave." The stats are damning. And surprizing.
Put me down as incredulous.
I don't doubt that there are sick rate abusers, but the fact that there would be abusers doesn't mean the entire system is broke, and looking for an overall fix. The company wants to reduce expenditures, and you're just pushing an argument that tangentially helps. That's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
Exhibit B is the OE issue. You're an enlightened guy, and you "get" the sick issue because you've seen the data, but your analysis is that the OE issue is "tiny" a mere "small bone" ALPA is sure to give away? On the one hand, you are the guy that's trying to tell us that OE concessions are the biggest thing ("maybe the only thing") RA asked for, and yet... it's no big deal. On the one hand, you
wish it weren't so (that a deal on OE concessions and Sick changes is a foregone conclusion), but on the other, this is where we're naturally headed.
You seem to me to be much smarter than your two posts above. Because I think you know better, it gives you the appearance of being duplicitous. Not the best day, in terms of your credibility.
Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
But RA himself mentioned this tiny little good deal in our contract. Isn't that weird?
Not so weird as you hammering the point for the third time, really. Let the negotiators negotiate privately.