Corporations aren’t people folks, no matter what some would have you think. Thinking that the company has a goal of keeping its employees happy is a bad place to start especially when it comes to our union. Envoy Air Inc has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders first and foremost and the only goal is profits. There are no feelings involved in this. If a company decides to pay more or give bonuses, it’s not out of the goodness of their hearts, it’s to protect the bottom line by recruiting and/or retaining labor. The way our union is surprised when management isn’t willing to give away reserve enhancements for free blows mind more than anything. It tells me that they and a lot of other folks here just don’t get it. All this talk about “good faith” negotiations and I want to slap myself. I sound like a broken record because I keep saying we gave away our leverage on improvements with these crap LOAs. Contract negotiation reps kept telling me we have to play nice and help the company out with there captain shortage now so they can scratch our backs later. I couldn’t believe my ears at first. Now here we are, the union finally realized that the company will gain nothing financially from negotiations right now...so they won’t even make the attempt. A disgruntled pilot group has not slowed the line of new hires coming in and why would the company care at all about disgruntled pilots at a WO? No one about to flow is going to make waves and put there chance of getting the heck out of here in jeopardy. So currently the company has all the cards and we have none and it isn’t changing anytime soon. Sorry if some here are just finding this out.