Originally Posted by Davetastic

... the union is leveraging every available resource at this moment to force a favorable contract. It is a negotiating tactic. If that means that it won't allow an LOA to institute positive training changes or allow for pay raises or psuedo gateway travel because it my be perceived as "caving", then yes it is a contractual problem. Agreeing with the way our negotiations are progressing is irrelevant because we signed up to be part of this union and this is what our union has decided to do during these negotiations.

Originally Posted by Davetastic

The problem here on this forum is that we have those what will take any sliver of malfunction or failure and pass complete and total blame on Atlas without any regard for putting this into proper perspective, i.e., contractual negotiations drive the vast majority of issues currently plaguing employment at Atlas.