Originally Posted by Itsajob

The company wanted to open early and made a bunch of talk about a seamless transition hoping to get scope relief. If we had caved on scope I’m sure those that survived the big outsourcing would have a much better hourly rate today. Once they found out that scope isn’t for sale this just turned into the standard airline 2+ year negotiation. Hopefully most of us have been through this enough times not to have expected anything to be different. I personally never met anyone who honestly expected things to be different. They may have been cautiously optimistic, but they have seen this rodeo before. This is why I pay a union. My elected representatives go beat this horse while I enjoy my life. When we get a TA, I’ll read it and then vote.