Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
He permitted the company to repeat the NA15 playbook: "Help us with our problems, and we'll give you lots of money." Apparently, Ed led him down the primrose path on their daily phone calls. Inexcusable.
He has accepted concessions to the December counterproposal, and until this last meeting, the MEC had pretty much no idea what Malone and the NC had agreed to. That kind of news does not improve with age.
Even if he somehow browbeats the MEC into approving the concessions we know are coming, there is absolutely no way he can sell it to the pilot group. Especially after promising not to sell anything to the pilot group.
He is trying to cram down concessions. Big no-no. I believe he is effectively irrelevant at this point. He simply doesn't have the tools to adapt to this environment. He thought he could change the game with a full-page newspaper ad and a slick speech/letterwriter on staff. This is no longer the time for a finesse operator and/or a one-man band. And there are way too many Moak carryovers in his administration; we needed a clean sweep.
We require a hard-nosed SOB who can rally the MEC and build a team the pilot group can unite behind. Malone is not that guy. JMO.
You have a lot of inside information. I don't know the specific concessions you do. The problem I see. We keep switching horses, this contract will never be settled. Maybe years from now. That's not an acceptable proposition either. On this date in July, the company is flush with cash.
The last TA needed to be fixed in a few areas. The compensation needed to be increased. Unfortunately, retirement was never addressed. If you are advocating wholesale changes, as in leaving ALPA, I don't agree. Give me the name of the hard nosed SOB to lead the union.