Originally Posted by
Baradium
Binding arbitration was requested because the company had already made it clear that they saw no reason to negotiate. They even put out memos stating such. The union's position was that being accepting of arbitration was at least showing the pilot group was trying to possibly increase the chances of the moderators releasing us. Not that it ever happened though.
The mediators were never going to release you because you agreed to binding arbitration.
Do you think any company wants to negotiate with its labor groups In a good economy..... it leads to higher labor costs. The main reasons they do is because they want avoid labor discord and quantify labor cost going forward. This keeps the shareholders happy.
You may as well agree to binding arbitration for 2020 now because the company won’t want to negotiate then either. I honestly feel bad for you guys because your MEC members are a bunch of yes man b*%ches. The problem is that the pilot group accepts it.
At Delta we cleaned house after our initial TA failure. We recalled multiple reps and as a result our union leaders actually listened to the pilot group (mostly).