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dtfl
He stated that in his opinion the MEC will not give up our 240 (+) hours sick leave.
That depends on the semantics though. Hey, you keep your 240….BUT….anything over 14 days requires all kinds of verification, etc. Oh and even those 14 can require verification if we (the company) and we alone determine its "suspiscious" and we define suspiscious but trust us we won't abuse it, that's why we need complete power over it.
He also stated they plan on not budging from the 23G LCA issue with the FO removal.
That's interesting, because it seems like that is by far the softest target from our side since it directly effects so few, and from their side since its supposedly a hot button issue for them. If we hold strong on that, maybe the other concessionary rumors won't be in the TA either.
I'm not a DALPA lover but I have to believe they wouldn't sell us out like the current rumors say....
Let's hope so. The rhetoric from some mirrors that of bankruptcy. We have to take these concessiosn now before the evil mean government/judgeNMB gives us even more/parks us for all eternity etc!
This is the best negotiating environment from our point of view arguably in industry history. There may be time value of money, but there is no time value of concessions.