Orange lanyards are great. Sounds like we might even see some informational picketing. But its still pre-game warmup. The whistle hasn't really blown yet.
I agree.
I think there is a lot of pent up "militancy" out there. You can feel it on the line and in the lounges. Every time management puts out a memo telling us how great we are and how we need to keep up the operational excellence, guys are only getting more disgusted and angry.
I'm not buying that for one second. If there were truly pent up anger you wouldn't see guys tripping over themselves to fly GS#5 etc etc.
How on Earth can he say that stuff while he still has the pilot group working under our bankruptcy concessions? Ed and everybody else may have recovered and prospered but we are still waiting.
That is partially accurate at best. Our contract is vastly better than it was during the depths of BK, so the convenient line of "still working under BK concessions" is misleading at best and an outright lie at worst.
The loss of our pensions was a devastating blow to a large segment of the pilot group. It really hurts to see the corporation now paying off all its debts and buying back all that stock and paying the huge bonuses to management and buying other airlines all over the world, etc. etc.. There needs to be some acknowledgement of the enormous sacrifice made by the pilots with that pension termination and at least an attempt to give us a chance to make up some of that loss.
True.
Right now the MEC is pretty much keeping a lid on the boiling pot. They're saying there is no reason we shouldn't have a deal "this summer". That has left the impression that things are moving along and management is still negotiating in good faith. I hope that is true, but if its not...
Sometime "this summer" Malone is going to blow the whistle.
He can only "blow the whistle" when the RLA says he can...which is only when both sides have been released to self-help by the NMB.
All sides in these negotiations know that, including company, DALPA and mediator.
Now if you personally decide to fly (or not) any particular way, that is totally up to you and no one can dictate otherwise.