Originally Posted by
R57 relay
I don't agree with you that this is solely on APA/East shoulders. Even if what you say is true, the company has a JCBA that covers us all. They decide when to make each section active. They could have implemented this and we'd have to live with the make up provisions. They didn't, right?
Maybe they made the right short term decision. Without the make up provision, most would have taken the money and gone home. Now they are scrabbling to make up lost time. Long term I think it was short sighted. Haven't the pay protected in the past when they didn't have too, under extraordinary situations?
The more important point is the union had a chance to implement it last year and refused to work with the company.
Again this is 100% on the union going back to last year. This is not a new thing. They've known a out it for a long time, and they are trying to hide that fact. It's despicable.
As for the company unilaterally implementing it, I think it had to do with PBS coming online. But they were willing to make it happen earlier if the east gave up the two day bid sheet, which they didn't want to do, and here we are.