Originally Posted by
Gunga Din
In light of the latest developments, I suggest our NC and MEC provide us with an update on their current asking position. No more hiding behind their excuses about negotiations in public. Every other airline tells their pilots what the general position is. They also release the results of the survey.
Furthermore I suggest our union organize an informational picket at all the major crew bases during the Thanksgiving holiday rush. Also, billboards at the same airports as the pickets. Perhaps even smaller ads inside the terminals.
If this current leadership is not willing to be more aggressive in our cause perhaps we need to seriously consider a change.
Looks like you guys will finally have to face facts and recognize with the current NC nothing is going to happen that will make you the slightest bit happy. Unfortunately it will stay a secret squirrel club as long as you leave the current NC in place, which one member is the MEC chair now. The NC is supposed to be lead by the MEC, that's not how it works at Spirit. The same results as last time, they will come to us begging for a Strike vote to hide behind, then will give us a ****ty TA and claim we have no choice, no man's land, etc. There will be no more transition conflicts in it, no profit sharing (they don't believe in that), no retro (same there too). Please stop believing the BS, every other NC is transparent to their pilot groups, why not ours? SWA gets info on the TA the same day, we waited 3 weeks to see ours after a strike?!? What are you expecting with the same people?
BTW, nice touch at SWA, even deceased people and retirees get retro. Our NC doesn't even care about new hires, they lowered first year pay in this Struck contract?!?
You want change? Keep emailing your reps and demand new members on the NC, put forward a resolution, let DFW have it's own local, etc.
Time to start getting militant on this management, stop the handshakes, high fives, and give backs, relief, no quid still after over a year. Let's fly the contract to the letter.