Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
C2012 was a good, though not great contract. I think sometimes "POS" just spews from the keyboards of many posters by default. The funn6 thing is that Heiko knows more about this contract than anyone posting here, and Internet tough guy persona aside, NOT ONE of you guys would or could do a better job negotiating.
Probably true. I'm certainly not suggesting I should be a negotiator, as I have no experience , training, OR desire to be directly involved in something like that.
Think about this. If I hire an attorney to represent my interests and he sets off on a tangent and represents me in a way that is contrary to what I specified when I hired him, is the solution for me to fire him and represent myself or is the solution for me to fire him and hire a different attorney?
Again, Heiko's a great guy but he's a big supporter of the proactive appeasement strategy we've been using for the past 10 years. He thinks a 21% increase in pay rates over a 3 year period (C2012)... without accounting for inflation or accounting for the 42% pay cut we took... is something to brag about. In other words, his OBJECTIVE is not restoration but rather getting modest improvements digging out of a bankruptcy reset. I don't think the majority of our pilot group is on board with that kind of thinking anymore. Not with the industry restructured and our company making previously unimagined profits with even better on the horizon.