Originally Posted by
sailingfun
What some fail to realize is that in conventional negotiations you meet once or twice a month and the company rarely sends decision makers to the meetings. We are meeting 4 to 5 days a week with the principles in the room. We have probably already done the equivalent of two years negotiations at the normal pace.
Really???
From todays (May 20, 2015) negotiating update:
With these four days, your Negotiating Committee has met for a total of 24 days with their Company counterparts since negotiations began in March. For many other pilot groups, it often takes
six months or more to achieve this amount of negotiating time.