Let's be a fly on the wall in the secondary line working group:

Company: we want this and we are not going to budge.

Us: we don't like it

Two months later......

Company: we still want this and we're not going to budge, but we will give you visibility on the PBS, errrrr, secondary line program. And, anything you don't like, we will let you take it to the system board (where we get to rule on it).

Us: where do we sign, since you didn't budge, this is the best we can do.

And, there will be no LOA to vote on. We will live with a split crew force PBS system without any of the things other pilot groups have gotten. Some pilot groups control the "keys"...they can adjust the parameters.

I've seen predictions that a full PBS system is worth 40-50 productivity improvement. Rumor had it the company was offering a big raise to get it. Now we put that camel's nose under the tent for about 20% of the crew force with no vote, and no chance to fix anything for nearly a decade.

We must have gotten a giant raise to give this away with weak protective language. Oh wait, we got a COLA raise.

Vote No!