Originally Posted by
cornbeef007
Have you ever sat down with ALL of your reps individually and asked exactly what was being discussed just prior to the walk of infamy? Do that and see which reps sidestep the conversation, the members of the "dirty dozen" or the "appeasement 7". The only reason this is continuously perpetuated is because the appeasement guys don't ever need to give you or their other constituents a straight answer. Everything was in closed session, so they can spin it anyway they want but they will never give you a simple, factual answer.
After you speak with them individually, ask yourself how our low end scope looked in the final contract.
The dirty dozen had the integrity to do their deed in plain sight, while the old Moak regime would have made their voting choice the night before at the bar. This is transparency and I hope ATL does the right thing and finally makes Moakism irrelevant.
After the Strong 12 caucused and returned to state "their" final direction to the MEC, SD wrote in a communique that the direction they gave was "Highly risky and unlikely to result in a deal". The negotiating team then met with the company in DC and obviously the meeting went nowhere fast with high level execs leaving days early. Exactly as SD had predicted. It wasn't until the MEC meeting in Marietta that Malone was able to bring everyone together and hash out a reasonable direction that led to a TA.
If the Captain reps state a contract was achieved in spite of the FO reps, maybe they should state what they accomplished in the new TA instead of publishing letters of support from random C44 line pilots.