Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
No Slip, we didn’t blow it nearly as bad as you think. We missed out on some things, LTD/insurance stuff comes to mind. That’s a big ticket item to me and that’s why I voted no.
I agree about the LTD, but that was not even close to the only reason for rejecting it.
But in reality, you don’t publish the Platform, go to the Company and say... you can afford it, now pay up! You can try, but that right there handicapped us. We didn’t ask for the moon and settled for the Platform. We asked for the Platform and settled for over a billion short of it. Isn’t that how negotiations work?
Agreed.
In my opinion, we may have screwed ourselves by publishing a reasonable document instead of a rather lofty one, but then again we needed to rally the membership, and the Platform did accomplish that. I do think Jon and the NC made a mistake of indicating how they were voting because of the “if it’s good for Jon, it’s good for me” crowd. It should have been a simple presentation consisting of pros, cons, what was gained, what was lost and let the chips fall.
Membership polling showed that "we" were not willing to do what it took to get any closer to platform, which is why Jon "endorsed" it. He knew that a strike vote with this pilot group would've been the kiss of death.
I don’t think we’ll be going back to the old ways. You guys were still under the influence of Herb’s way that a handshake was good enough. Gary clearly ended that era by lying to us and getting the SWAPA he deserved. I just don’t see us going back to SWAPA 1.0 ways.
LOL.... It took over a decade for GK to (almost) get the union he deserved. Now, we just need the
membership he deserves!
That means that folks have to stop embellishing their pay vs. days worked numbers etc.(:cough: T1 :cough
. Whether you actually flew or not, reserve is a day of
work.
This stuff plays right into GK's hands, just like it always has. Guys like Myron have been using this argument for as long as I've been here.