Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
Bad blood on both sides almost at every turn it seemed to me. Double furlough for many of my generation. Lack of working together on anything. Senior guys get all the candy. I know it takes two to tango but it's not something I want to see in my career again. Saw a lot of that mindset in some of the guys who frequent this board in the TA discussion.
BB was hired a month before me. I met him when we were 757 FO's and by no means senior. He was doing ALPA work then and he rode our jumpseat to San Diego, right after his house burned down -- and I mean right after. He talked to us about union stuff and our pilot group the whole flight.
Senior guys get all the candy was not the NWA-ALPA style when we got rid of the B scale in 1998. We also negotiated pay raises a few years after 9/11 when the company was losing money.
The NWA style of negotiating wasn't what many people make it out to be. Most of the angst came from management and us resisting, that's all.
Give the guy a chance. Let's see what happens.
