Originally Posted by
cornbeef007
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).
I'm not there anymore, but the company refused binding arbitration. Otherwise... there would have been binding arbitration. The union's official position was that it showed how eager we were to work to get a deal done and how little the company was.
The pilot group was far from a bunch of yes men though. And the second TA was very much better. Of course bankruptcy took care of that.
Regardless, during that period there was no one getting released. It didn't happen until Spirit instituted carry on bag fees and got released as a punishment. When a union is released just to mess with management, I think that should show pretty good proof that the RLA is not beneficial.
You do seem to have very little idea of what is going around in the industry though. Right now most regionals are approaching the unions to give money just to attract pilots. Of course, the 9E management now is all Delta management too. It works a lot better when management is at least trying to keep people somewhat happy.