Originally Posted by
Bugaboo
Where are you getting this from Pack? I know many 2007 hires at VA....not a single one of them are EXPECTING anything and are far from feeling entitled. If anyone is acting entitled I would say it is you. You sound very paranoid.....maybe for a good reason.
Aint ****e you can do about it anyway except for making your feelings known to your MEC and let them take it from there.
Well if the VA MEC doesn't offer straight relative position, and the ALK MEC doesn't offer straight DOH, I'd be shocked. That would be like a lawyer going to court and offering to concede half the case to the court.
If ALPA were smart they'd make future mergers "baseball style" arbitrations, (wherein each party puts forth an integration and the mediator just picks one or the other, no changes) that would force both sides to make strategic concessions in their own proposals before presenting to a negotiator for fear of getting put out to pasture by the mediator. Then each sides MEC would at least set a reasonable expectation in their membership.
The way it works now, each side shoots for the moon and tries to justify their position and it serves to pit the two groups at odds for years to come.