Originally Posted by
Softpayman
Our entire TA is new and I'd expect it to take longer than an expired contract with some revised sections. The union guidance was around a month timeframe, I don't remember them claiming to get it wrapped up in 2 weeks. This doesn't mean that the company is up to shenanigans, however 2 weeks may be more appropriate in other scenarios.
The company and NC hammered out a lot of language before the AIP was reached in order to minimize the time it took to go from AIP to TA. With that in mind, just because it’s new, doesn’t mean it should take an extraordinary amount of time. I think their goals are reasonable.
The posted initial timeline was this:
May 16th MEC vote to send to language/TA
Approx 4 weeks later the full TA will be presented to the MEC
The MEC will have approx 1 week to read/vote on the TA
If the MEC approves it, it will then be sent to the pilot group
Soon after, road shows will commence, some of which will overlap a 30-day TA voting window that should close in early August.
The tone of the NCs update last week was negative. The company took until June 7th just to put a “completely unacceptable” implementation proposal on the table. Hopefully this week’s update has a more positive tone with more progress made, but if that’s how the company has been playing ball, I’m not getting my hopes up. We aren’t too far off the proposed timeline yet. But if this week isn’t productive, we could be.
I can’t believe, with as bad as some of this AIP is, the company would even remotely fight over implementation/language and risk losing more votes. Guess we will see.