Originally Posted by
EskimoJoe
Arbitration is on the table thanks to ALPA merger Policy, not the Alaska Pilot group. There was never a choice not to use arbitration in this process. It was predetermined by ALPA National.
Eskimo-schmo,
You are wrong, plain and simple. The reason you're in arbitration is because negotiations failed.
Why did your negotiations fail? Because there was no real reason for your company to come to the table. Completions rates and on-time performance was in the 90's. Why fix what isn't broken?
In the end, your company didn't have to come to the table because Alaska pilots didn't make them. Many Alaska pilots sat passively, waiting and hoping for their company to do the right thing. Still many more greedily fed at the trough, trading away everyone's chance at any real gains for their selfish short-sighted $hort-term profit. In both cases, there was no need for your company to seriously come to the table.
Gordon Gekko was right. Greed is good. Especially if you're management-