Originally Posted by
TonyC
...Our openers did NOT contain restrictions on what could or could not be done with the Defined Benefit Plan, and the first priority was not to keep everyone on the same plan. Certainly that was a priority, but the only priority published in our openers was "Improve DB Plan."...
...Now, I don't know what kind of lenses you are using to view it, but NO CHANGE is NOT an improvement to the DB plan....and I think we'd look foolish voluntarily surrendering our A Plan to a Company that is wildly successful, hugely profitable, and growing at a tremendous pace. While others had theirs ripped away in times of bankruptcy or duress, you want to vote yours away in an environment of growth and profit?...If we vote this thing in, that's what we'll be doing, and that's how we'll be known. The pilots who voted away their A plan for absolutely nothing in return...
...You remember the MEC Chairman and the Negotiating Committee Chairman telling us all along that our demands (including "Improve DB Plan") were reasonable, and The Company could afford them. Of course, and you trusted them to be telling the truth. Why has the story changed now? Before The Company could afford what we wanted, and you trusted them...
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Phenomenal post!
Meanwhile here we are here arguing about the possibilities of giving up the A-plan for new hires, to improve our B-plan, if the TA is rejected.
Our openers were to IMPROVE BOTH THE A AND B PLANS. We have caved there, how can we not see that as a group? Plus, we gave away sprinkled concessions throughout on top of it?!?!?
Our outstanding company can afford this, that is why we charge customers what we do, and why we fly the schedules we do, for outstanding profits. We deserve an outstanding TA to vote on, not a marginal, concession-riddled, caved-on-openers TA.
Make no mistake, the company WILL come after our ENTIRE A-plan in the future. If we have this concession-riddled TA now, during record-profits, just get ready for a true grab for all sections of the CBA next time around, when they will actually have an argument about coming after benefits, QOL issues, etc...