Originally Posted by
Rudder
I certainly hope you guys are right. I just chatted with a captain that stated that "this is the best contract in airline history." I asked him if it was better than what we had in 2004 and he could not answer.
If someone has truly researched and understands what all the changes are and votes yes I can respect that but if they just blindly follow a few bullet points then I cannot respect their decision.
I ran across 3 captains today that are all giddy about how good the deal is. All three said they didn't care about the LCA trips being pulled. "Shouldn't get paid to do nothing anyways" is what one said. All three said they were glad about the sick leave because it will force the abusers to stop abusing sick time. 2 of them had no clue what a DHS was when I mentioned it. Some of these guys are totally clueless about what they support.
If we want this to be voted down, we still have a lot of guys to convince the deal stinks. I wasn't going to go to a roadshow to listen to the sales job, but we all need to turn out on droves or the only topics that will be covered are the two good points of the TA. You know they aren't going to bring up the concessions unless someone in the audience throws them out.