Originally Posted by
ColdWhiskey
OK. I'll admit that was a quick and not well thought out response. I should not have used the words 'automatic NO vote'.
I am smart enough to thoroughly evaluate any proposal we are presented with.
I hope that we are not presented with a proposal that includes Pref Bid, because it is such a concession to what we have now, that the rest of the proposal would have to be laden with huge advances in almost every other area of the contract (pay in excess of $300/hr for example) for me to support it.
I find it hard to imagine a proposal including Pref Bid that I could support.
I agree.
I'm not even sure how the "keys" to Prefbid can be given to us. It's still a system where the top 10-15% senior peeps are the only ones who are happy...
This negotiation isn't rocket science and we're not the first airline to go through it. I full expect us to get a lot of what we want and a few of what we don't but just have to tolerate. I've concluded that this company is not going to offer anything NEAR what we want until self-help. At this point, that has to be our goal. Self-help. Then, when the company can't take anymore, we up the ante to what we want.