Originally Posted by
sailingfun
It's funny that DPA said the opposite. The more you fragment and divide the group the less money you can demand in negotiations. For that reason they pledged to end all efforts almost a year before we would exchange openers for contract 2012. They would not go back on their word would they?
The less money you can demand in negotiations?
Sailing, buddy...
If they stop kicking us in the scrote...at this point it doesn't matter.
This TA actually makes money for the company, shrinks international even further, abrogates seniority, grows out sourced top and bottom scope, guts profit sharing further, etc...At a time of record profits AND leverage for us.
DALPA doesn't represent us. This should never have been ta'd. You don't have Stockholm syndrome, you have battered wife syndrome.