Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You can't poll all the pilots online. We do that with the survey and ⅓ don't fill it out. You also can't update your negotiating position with every poll and ever hope to get a agreement. The current method combines online polling, phone polling , email and personal contact. It's a good method, the issue comes with the weight assigned to each.
You also can't get an agreement with an inferior TA. Based on my cockpit and lounge polling, that is what people see right now. If PS is touched, in any way, the TA won't make it out of the MEC. If PS isn't touched, the rates better come in a bit above the companies last counter. 16.5/3/3/3 won't cut it. If they throw in some little morale slapping nuggets, like vacation pay only, no credit, or training pay 30 minutes/hr less than the FA's...that won't help. We will know soon, imho. I believe a TA is reached by the end of next week. Whether or not it leaves the MEC will be telling.