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Old 09-01-2007, 05:19 AM
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Popeye
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I strongly agree with your opinion.

With professional negotiators, they will be compelled by a contract with us to do what we tell them. They will have little or no inclination to negotiate for issues outside the realm of the mandate we gave them.

With professional negotiators we will only have ourselves to blame for not looking at the facts, polling ourselves to determine what our goals will be, and analyzing the advice our negotiators give us to get where we told them we want to be.

Issues like VEBA, will never seep through. Why should they, except to satisfy some parochial whim? We could probably trim down the CBA to a size where we are not cross referrencing chapter and verse only to find out, " the company can screw you because it might cause a negative economic impact."

I don't mean to be too disparraging. I appreciate all the work that our fellow pilots have done on our behalf. We are in a great place with a decent CBA. Let's just look ahead and ask ourselves how best to get to the next level.
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