Originally Posted by
SanJuanPlebe
Ok- so when our negotiators go to the NMB to give a status update on May 11 and Linda Puchala asks why we have taken a strike vote on the company's very first pass, what do you expect them to say? How do they justify it?
We'll look like a bunch of petulant children rather than professional aviators.
I have faith in my union, leadership, and negotiators. We need to be the adults in the room even when management isn't.
Let Bendover explain why he had a sudden case of Jury Duty at the last minute and couldn't attend bargaining on more than one occasion. For us, let's stay the course, focus, follow our union's lead and get the deal we all deserve. It's a marathon, not a sprint. And to get to the end game of a deal or a release, we have to play the game better, because it's rigged against us from the start.
First pass? This has been going on for over 2 years, man. He could say this to the NMB; we had many of these sections completed with an AIP, but mgt decided to toss those out the window and drag this out. We arguably aren't even half way through with negotiations, because these sections take longer, and it's all because they slammed a torpedo in everything we'd already accomplished. This ain't the first pass.