Originally Posted by
fanaticalflyer
BUUUUT, saying NO to this TA will not do anything for you NOW. MEC is not going back to the table with the company. This TA discussion is complete and it's going to a vote. Somehow you guys need to absorb this concept! The talks are done like the ISL! Either vote YES, and get 16% pay raise on JAN 1st, while on reserve or wait 4-6 years from now to get your reserve issues fully fixed with NO retro pay. And you get the extra raises in the following years with guarantees to match DAL rates. You made a choice to sit reserve. Now you have to make a choice to just vote yes or no. Yes gives you something and NO gives you nothing for a long time.
Where do you get this stuff?
The company DESPERATELY needs this FRMS in order to start a bunch of new ultra-long haul in 2016. Without it they are in a serious bind under the current contract. Why do state with such certainty the impossibility of sending the Neg Comm back if the MEC rejects it?
The 45-day negotiations window was arbitrary. Deadlines and other "urgency" measures are just age-old negotiating tactics. I believe the company wanted a quick negotiation because they think Heppner is weak and that they'd need to pay more for the relief they want under a new MC and, most likely, a new Neg Comm.
Really, where do you come up with ANY hard and fast restrictions that prevent the MEC from sending the negotiators back to the table? There's no real reason they couldn't spend another month to get things fixed.