Originally Posted by
hyperboy
Bunker....leverage? Betting with house money? These are not facts just opinions right? The union meetings (attendance) during negotiations at most carriers would dictate the pulse of a pilot group and their anger. Ours were empty. Thoughts? Comments? I read the contract several times already. I was also at the meetings. Plenty have no idea whats in this contract cause they have yet to read it, let alone realize some big stuff has yet to implement.
Pilots voted this contract in by as much as they did ALPA. Many on here including you and me (maybe not?) could be anyone and do anything as we meld and hide behind anonymity. We can administer venom realizing it was our own tail we struck?
How does this help? Live in anger at every 3 of 4 guys we fly with until the next contract? Sorry not me.
This contract negotiation was rough.
We had several factors working against us, a mediator who wanted to put us on ice, a fractured pilot group and the uphill battle of trying to get our first contract and protections codified.
Could we have gotten more? Probably. How long would we have had to negotiate? I honestly don’t know.
I hope now that we have a base contract, we can go and fix what we missed in contract #1.
I hope we can all move forward and get what we deserve in contract #2. DAL/UAL or bust.