Originally Posted by
Varsity
What a stupid argument.
If the company sends negotiators that negotiate poorly, it's the company's (managements) problem. Period. If Envoy were to sign a contract with Embraer (or any outside company) and the board tried to reneg, they would get their a**** sued off.
If the company couldn't negotiate the terms they did, then they shouldn't have. It's not the union's fault that the company got outfoxed.
They signed an agreement, and they need to be held to it.
It's actually not an argument, but i can see you have a lot of passion around it.
What they signed was an "Agreement in Principle"....by definition that is not a contract. It's not binding and anyone working at that level should know that. Knife to a gunfight.
If you re-read what the union rep wrote..it's stated clearly that they knew what they were signing and it was not a done deal.
Once the Agreement in Principle is signed, the significant terms of an agreement are in place and the negotiating process is essentially over, with the tenets of the deal in place. The next step is drafting and editing contract language implementing the essential terms of the agreement.
That last sentence represents in my experience several more weeks of work, and further "ironing out" that can be a bare knuckles fight.