Originally Posted by
Rock
Complete guess on my part, but I know the company wants to renegotiate our retirement. It sounds like that was one of our lines in the sand. If we approach them outside of section 6 with a list of options we would now consider, they might be willing to listen.
Of Course the Company would love to renegotiate our Retirement.
Do you really think they want to improve it for us?
They know this is a emotional issue within the Pilot ranks.
So let's assume as soon as this TA Passes, the Company immediately comes to ALPA and says "Hey lets talk about retirement"
Just a rhetorical question to you. (It would be negotiations after all, even outside of Section 6.)
Do you think their opener would be We want to raise the Cap on the A-plan and Change the multiplier.
They will want something. maybe like "Hey we will discuss giving you a
Temporary A-plan Bump but we have this new Computerized Program for Monthly Bidding we would like to implement.
Or "We have received approval for the TNT deal but we need to explore a divestment of our Intra European flying. CGN will have to close as our TNT subsidiary will take over. We need relief on Move packages home and no more Excess Bids. Oh wait we already changed that
