Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
"We extract maximum leverage by controlling the timeline."
"We increase our chances of success with the credible threat of walking away when the company wastes our time."
Said no Dalpa negotiator ever.
The best contract out there is probably AA. Why would the company want to give us anything above that contract especially early? Why on earth would any mediator award anything more than pax carrier rates at the end of an arbitration?
The company can sit on this if they really want. If you read my post about BATNA, this is the company's BATNA. Wait. Let it go to mediation. End up with a very modest 10% cost increase to their pilot contract. Shareholders are happy. We are not.
We are back to old school ways of stupid mgmt/labor relations.