Originally Posted by
Rock
The great unknown will always be.... would we have done better or worse by continuing negotiations. I noticed that Delta is just now getting around to polling their pilot group about what they would like to focus on when their negotiations resume. They voted down their TA on 10 July. That was about five months ago. No word on when their negotiations will actually resume. Nothing on the books yet. Would we have moved the ball forward any faster? I doubt it. So flash forward 5 months. It's 20 March 2016. Peak has come and gone. The company is hiring at a steady pace. And we are working under our 2011 CBA hoping we will still be short in all seats approaching the 2016 Peak because for all our talk about "leverage" we really don't have any other than "flying the contract". In that environment, are we "winning" or "losing"?
I might have missed it, but has CD addressed the pilot group since the TA passed? A little leadership from the MEC probably wouldn't hurt at this point.
"The great unknown".....Here we go again! I suppose based on that thinking, I should always vote yes.
Of course there are unknowns. It looks like 57% didnt want to find out what those were, and 43% were willing to see.
The fact that the TNT deal was done shortly after signing, along with, from what some have said, CRS is relieved that covering trips is now much easier (meaning it wasnt so easy before), we did have leverage.
And the fact that it passed with 57%, to me, is an indictment of how lousy it was.
The yes folks can give their reasons same as the no folks. IMO (I know, nobody asked me) we are a weak, lame, wimpy group that still hasnt learned how to stick up for ourselves. We have selfish pr!cks flying DPs, OT, and draft when they shouldnt. And because of that, some think that if we turn down a TA these folks and others wont do what has to be done. Maybe so. But you dont know until you try.
As I have stated before, Behnke is probably crapping in his grave over our behavior. We all ought to be glad that in the late 1700s there was a minority, whom dispite the unknown, decided to take a gamble.