Originally Posted by
Raging white
"Bluffing"? This isn't the Cuban Missile crisis.
"Our pilots will agree to a contract with these changes that they listed in this survey that I'm showing you".
If the company doesn't agree, we'll just have to keep cashing PS checks.
I know that's oversimplified, but in this particular environment, it's easy. When there's no rush, it really should be easy. You only make it hard by injecting a fake urgency.
I want the NC to try and go above and beyond the survey when possible! If we show the Company our survey and therefore our low end then we make it really hard for the NC to get the maximum!
If a "new" PWA tallies at $1 BILLION a year in
increased pilot costs(including any gives) against the PTIX, we would get all $1 billion.
This is a BIG number.
By "cashing the PS" check we get 1/3 of 20% of that 1B. That's about $83 Million.
This is a SMALL number.
I prefer a BIG number over a SMALL number. Don't you?
(It still needs to be the right deal in QOL, not just "a" deal.)
Getting the "right deal" still requires a unified face from the MEC wether it's expedited or protracted negotiations. It reduces our leverage when the Company can see division and use those wedges against us. That makes the top number smaller and keeps us at the lower number longer...
No; no fake urgency. I agree we will "keep cashing the PS", and I look forward to that continuing. I want more(a lot more), and I want it yesterday. I don't like when people undermine the effort to do that.