Originally Posted by
lenkelly
I was at the meeting at the Hilton where nearly every seat was filled and Bob Chimenti and your negotiating committee were greeted with a standing ovation and were heroes to all. Not surprisingly the Agreement was ratified by an overwhelming 95% of our pilots.
Now, the Company wants to open new domiciles to further enhance growth in the fastest growing segments of our business and wants to give us additional benefits on top of our previously mentioned industry leading contract. Now, it’s off with their heads and we’re getting screwed.
Len Kelly
Len,
Thanks for taking time to express your opinions, I appreciate it. The question I have beyond STV and the pay issues, is SCOPE. In the same standing ovation filled room, did we not get an "Industry Leading Scope Clause ?". I remember BC saying how surprised he was that the Company signed such an agreement. Now our same NC is selling this LOA as "it is better than we have in the CBA (which is wrong when you throw in the givebacks like STV) and more importantly protects Scope. How can the NC say this ? We paid many negotiating dollars to get our current Scope Clause and from what I read in the current CBA it already says the same thing the new LOA does.
I know you are not a Scope Lawyer, but this is BS that we need to pass a substandard LOA to protect something we thought we already had. I have asked MEC reps about this and hey had no answer for this question.