Originally Posted by
Bassman1985
Apparently our management is lying to our new hires in class on day 1 of indoc. They are telling them explicitly that the company wants to give us raises and ALPA is standing in the way of that. The only way ALPA could be standing in the way of raises is if they come with concessions elsewhere. If these raises were clean, the company would have our MEC signing off in a heartbeat. Also, that several members of management are running around saying that the Compass planes are coming here for sure. Done deal, just no dates yet.
Heard from the crew roominati in DFW yesterday.
This is 100% true. Just not the whole story. Yes, the company wants to give us raises. What they failed to mention to the new hires is that they want to give us raises in exchange for several gives from us elsewhere. Which is obviously unacceptable.