Originally Posted by
Plane Ramrod
Weren't blowing smoke? YGTBSM! The same group that said if you vote no, we are in no-man's land? The same group that showed us a TA 3 weeks after we went back to work? Same group that showed their technical competence by not including a contingency in the back to work agreement about what happens if there was a no vote? Or was that planned as leverage to use against us?
You are both correct. A320 said that they weren't blowing smoke regarding "how nice and cooperative management is", and that's true. SC and DP (especially DP) made it perfectly clear that they weren't friends with management.
And of course, Ram you are 100% correct about the MEC/NC blowing smoke about anything else.
For the peanut gallery, I leave it at this, we went on strike to make big gains, to place our contract on par with our peers. What we received from the strike was hugely disproportional to the risk we took by walking out. When the MEC/NC got called out in road shows for the inadequacy of the TA, their answer was as Ramrod states. They blew smoke up our skirts by failing to inform us that they had ALREADY legally obligated us to return to work under the TA.
When Ram talks, those of us who were here, we tend to listen!