Originally Posted by
MCDUie
I’m still curious how the union plans to back track in negotiations. The original proposal has already become obsolete, not to mention the 80 million that it’s been reduced. How is ALPA suddenly going to change course when presented with something similar from the company. The NMB is well aware that ALPA agreed to accept those rates in the last session. My fear is that we eventually get our 30 day cooling off period and around day 25 the company agrees to the last proposal. Of course we would tell them to pound sand but could the NMB park us and prevent us from striking since we already agreed to that rate? Hopefully I’m wrong, I trust our union leadership but I can see where the NMB could say we’re being unreasonable if we decline an offer in the 11th hour that ALPA previously agreed to.
We can’t be parked during the 30 day cooling off. We can even walk away “to cool off.” But it is generally a period of intense negotiations.
We’ve never seen anything but the Date of Signing rate pay proposals. We could always ratchet up the pay rates year-over-year for each successive year of the contract. And I would hope that we have some kind of protections built into this new contract to incentivize the company to no longer play the “drag it out for the discount” game when the next contract becomes amendable.