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It was a year and one day extension on the contract. An opener is just that, if you were seriously thinking we'd get a contract early I have a bridge to sell you.
The MOU was what handicapped us not voting yes/no on that contract. I think it was our only play.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm siding with the company here... we signed our contract, it's done. We aren't going to get retroactive increases because of UAL and DAL leapfrogging us in the future unless it's built into the contract, which it isn't, begging management for a revisit just puts us in a weaker position.
Of course the flip-side of over-expectation is expecting the employees to collectively match the Delta product considering the bad taste of how they feel they've been taken advantage of by someone who anchored his arrival as one who said he would change the culture for the better which has gotten arguably worse.
No free rides and I think it's folly to expect to mimic Delta with a Walmart philosophy towards your employees. Thus, I think with virtual certainty and despite pretty new packaging, the new AA will walk in the foot prints of the old AA, just bigger. As long as all the present financial tailwinds remain in place enriching management, the BOD's and the shareholders, it's all good, but when headwinds kick in and it's the front-mine employees who can really make a difference, I think that's when the chickens come home to roost. It seems more and more, I see the "do the minimum and go home" philosophy in play and how can you blame anyone for that ?
We'll never catch Delta that way, that's for certain, but as I said before, maybe that's not the real goal ?