Originally Posted by
baseball
Here's the way I see it. Anytime you negotiate it costs you something. So, if our negotiators go out and seek something for the 2172 please understand that we (ALPA/all other UAL pilots) will be giving up something in exchange for that. It would/may be wiser to go out and try and get "THAT" after the meat and potatoes of the LOA is reached and use that as leverage to send out the agreement to the pilots, instead of trying to achieve that on the front end as a stated goal of the negotiating process.
It's easier to understand if you apply it to yourself:
Image that your union wrote a side letter into the last contract which is carefully worded so that it only applies to you and pegs your pay to some guy who was hired 7 years after you (who is also senior to you now).
How would you feel about that?
Would you want that corrected asap or would you be content to live with that indefinitely, perhaps forever?