Originally Posted by
JustWatching
There is really no need to argue back and forth on here. I'm disappointed in some areas, but will be voting yes.
I spent a few hours at the airport today and talked with a number of people. Only 1 was voting no. All others, mostly junior FO's and junior CA's were voting yes and had good reasons to do so.
In the end, I think a no vote sets the group much further backwards than a yes vote and provides needed protections that we can use to build towards a future.
Interesting, because I had the complete opposite experience. Only one junior FO that I spoke to said they were voting yes, everybody else was a no.
We've been through this before. We had a similar experience about 5 or 6 years ago with the current pay band system. The company gave us large pay raises with very little improvement in work rules. We voted yes to the improvements and then the company changed all our schedules, reduced the number of reserves, reduced the hours in each line, and most of us made tens of thousands of dollars less the following year. There is absolutely nothing in this TA that prevents them from manipulating the schedules to reduce costs.