Originally Posted by
Total BS
"Dumb and short sighted?"
Perhaps your hind sight is not quite 20/20. I get it that your point is about leverage, but if the no voters prevailed, how much longer would you have been willing to keep fighting while on CBA 2010 pay?
The ability to checkerboard reserve days could never have been maintained in any TA. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are not a one issue no voter though.
Anyway, it's all hypothetical now. CBA 2018, as imperfect as it is, is the deal, and calling your fellow pilots dumb and short sighted is frankly dumb and short sighted.
The vote is over and we all, yes and no voters alike, need to focus on the future.
Unity is as important as ever.
You're right about two things, I was talking about leverage, and I shouldn't have called my fellow pilots dumb and short sighted. I guess I was in the minority, but I would have been willing to wait a while longer to get what we deserve. But I really don't think we would have had to. The company needed transition and checkerboarding gone so badly it wasn't even funny. They absolutely played us. I will refrain from calling fellow pilots dumb, but I just hope we can all learn a lesson from this for next time. Don't vote based on the fear of what would happen if you vote no, or how long you may have to wait. The company will ALWAYS try to play you by making the unknown seem so scary. I get it that we were very far behind this time and it was hard to keep waiting. Next time we will still be very far behind, so we all need to start preparing for a long wait now.