Originally Posted by
Balder
The pilot group are involved in the negotiations. We have given our input through several surveys. And sorry, your speculative logical reasoning....nah, I don't think so.
Look, it would do you or me no good if we knew the "ask". It's most likely pretty high as it should be, but things will change for better or worse in the course of negotiations. My least favorite rep, JA, tried to cater to our "great urge to know" last year. We kept hearing things like "we are very close", "we are only xxx dollars apart", etc. That certainly backfired on us, didn't it.
Let the NC do their job - you will have your say in the end.
We should know their starting point now so we can replace them if they don't have the nerve to ask for industry standard without burning years only to find out they were weak all along.
Furthermore, they have never published the results of the survey.
Every other major pilot union published their positions.
Why doesn't ours? Something fishy may be going on here and I don't want to wait until 2018 to see a crappy TA and then make a move to replace.
If these guys won't tell us what every other airline union tells their members we should replace them.
Info pickets, billboards, newspaper advertisements. Transperancy in our union opening position. No more excuses!!!