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SpecialTracking
I'm willing to hear the offer, but I don't think the final product will be enough for me to vote in favor of extending a jcba born from a bankruptcy contract. Section 6 will not create more leverage but will make available the areas in need of improvement versus the topics the company wishes to discuss. They came to us. That in itself cost them more $$ then what I would accept. That $$ can be translated into a contract on time, or a costlier contract after the amendable date. When the company wants something, time moves at warp speed. Although not on the same scale, remember bankruptcy and how fast the contract was shoved down our throats and implemented?
I think we all have a great opportunity in the future for our contract. It might be in the form if an extension or not. The one truth in this is if we stand together and keep our eye on the goal, we will benefit more than not.
I can't really think of anything they want other than scope relief (NO) and some replacement for MOU 22 that they think can bully us into extending. The only scope relief I would agree to would be big RJ's flown on UAL property.
MOU 22 seemed kind of silly. Pay us extra, to be extend, automatically? Sounds good in theory, but in practice it incentivises us to be late. Plus they can't figure out how to do add pay reliably.
All that being said, I would prefer to NEVER go into full section 6 negotiations. The pilots always lose. We always wait for multiple years, only to get another dissappointing contract.