Originally Posted by
Han Solo
This is called talking out of both sides of your mouth. Of course we need improvements to the contract, but if nobody ever brings them up they'll never happen. Is your solution to remain quiet and hope really hard that things get better, or perhaps only people with a hire date (and perspective) similar to yours or earlier get to voice their concerns?
No, absolutely if you are new, and have valid complaints, air them! This contract is a constantly evolving thing, and we can and should ai for improvements.
All I care about is what works. What works is *most* of the time working with the company, getting improvements whenever you can, while still being willing to fight a strong fight when warranted.
Sometimes there are significant improvements via Section 6 (TA 2), sometimes there are failures (TA 1) and sometimes there are lots of small improvements, none earth-shattering on their own, but compounded on top of each other result in a significantly improved contract (several side letters, FAR 117 agreement etc).
What this current MEC seems hell bent to do is
appear tough, taking marching orders from the social media naysayers and chit chat crowd...while accomplishing very little. If that worked, I'd be on board more than I am. However it doesn't work, thus my skepticism.
However they are our union leadership, good or bad. I wish them well and still think that we can secure another very good contract. I just think it will take far more time than it should.