Originally Posted by
Audi2000
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.
1. Change NC now and you can add another couple years to the process. I was in favor of a NC change a year ago, but it's too late now.
2. MEC chair is ALWAYS a member of the NC per the by-laws
3. If we spend OUR negotiating capital on profit sharing it's not only going to cost the company for pilots but for several thousand flight attendants also because of their me too clause. We will never see profit sharing because of that.
4. What do non-DFW pilots have to do with DFW getting it's own local? You can write resolutions until you're blue in the face, but you're not getting a local until the MEC recommends it unless you can get the executive council on board... good luck with that.