Originally Posted by Bluedriver

This. All of this. By the time this vote is over our leverage probably ends until next May. Unless this union and pilot group step up the labor dispute stuff to level 15.

I would NOT be in favor of replacing the MEC or negotiating committee. More wasted time. They are all good people, they just had a ruthless opponent that was refusing to give us true industry parity.

Well, IF the vote fails the NC can go back in there with a clear mandate. New surveys, hard labor dispute media and picketing, go hard.

Even then, a small pain point for the company around the holidays and then again for spring break. Big leverage is again one YEAR from now.

We have been backed into a very difficult corner by this company, and frankly it is our fault, we LET it happen by calling a labor dispute WAY to late and by most of you individual pilots freely offering up your individual patience and good will for years because of a false belief that this company was going to offer you industry standard or market rate.

Look where we are now. I could spend the rest of my life regurgitating quotes from this group that make us all look like fools.

Now we have the history to prove we have been fools.

As beatnavy said in his great posts, this locks us into last place among our peers and I'm not sure I see a good path out of this mess. We will be suffering this contract for the next 7-8 YEARS, while in 5th/6th out of 6th place.

Maybe the language will have some unicorns and other mythical creatures in it. I'll wait to read it, but I highly doubt it.