Originally Posted by
Gjn290
At first, I was like you I thought the TA was terrible. I decided to spend hours upon hours over several days reading it and comparing it to our current CBA and the CBA's of other mainline operations.
The company wanted PBS from the start. That was in the presentation. Naturally, with PBS comes loss of transition, and while transition is great, it's not guaranteed consistently to most of the pilot group. I have gotten some transition conflicts in my limited time here and I was really only able to capitalize on it once. It was great when it worked, but I generally bid for days off, since I have a family. I'd rather have the much higher guaranteed income without having to hope for transition. Guarantee at the new rate, plus the DC, still pays me more than crediting 100+ hours. And I know I'll get that every month, which makes for an easier budget.
There is still no airport standby. They have to be in the process of rescheduling you. I do hate this, and don't think it should be in the TA, but it cost them money to do this. I could be wrong, but I don't think they'll go crazy with it because of the costs. Plus, you can get out of it by the mention of one word.
Most of the rescheduling language is in the current CBA, and most of what was added protects us and gets us paid. If I'm at work, I don't really care if I end up in LAX or BOS for the night. Just don't mess with my days off, and they aren't. In fact, the new rigs will probably give me a couple of more days off every month.
Losing the ability to drop RES days really hurts, but after May the company was committed to taking that ability away and the NMB was completely in their corner. This was the casualty of the TRO.
The hotel change was at the request of The Union. Guys complain all the time about the length of some of these drives. They actually listened and did something about it.
I'm not naive, I do not think the concessions are only 64 million, and if you watched the video, that's just an estimate. However, I do think if you think this is a cost neutral contract then you are naive.
Do I think it's perfect? No. Is it worthy of passing? Well, that's up to each individual voter, but I think it is.
You always preach education, yet you seem to not care about it yourself.
Long stay was union idea? How much it costs us in negotiation to save company higher hotel and supershuttle bill?
You put out very strong case for no vote then finnish with insult. I do not preach education but is good idea. I just say it because when anyone ask good question here answer from YES crowd is go to road show, ask question, get educated. Is very condescending. I did not become that way until tired of yes'ers bad attitude. Yes'ers are like coyote with acme rocket, funny to watch, self destructive.