Wow, this just gets better and better. Finally an MEC with some cajones.
30 August 2019
On December 13, 2018, the Association and the company put ink to paper and signed the all-to-well-known document titled Letter 2. Your MEC leadership and your Negotiating Committee (NC) have been steadfast working to bring the company to the table to finish what was started nearly one year ago. We have made proposals and met each opportunity management negotiators have made themselves available. But here we are. Still waiting for the resolution of Letter 2 negotiations.
This week your MEC officers, and Negotiating Committee volunteers took part in director-level meetings at ALPA national's new Valo Park location in McLean, VA. This two-day session included the director-level staff from Communications, Representation, and Legal, the ALPA Resource Coordinator, social media team, and others who rounded out the ALPA support staff that will assist us during our communications campaign to resolve Letter 2. During this meeting we created a multi-faceted and extremely robust social media plan targeting potential new hire pilots, which will educate them on life at XJT. We want to let them know if they contemplate XJT as their destination, they might want to investigate an alternate. This plan includes social media outreach, mailings, geo fencing, geo targeting, advertisements both digital and print, as well as face-to-face communication. This plan will officially launch on Tuesday, September 3, 2019 and once in motion will not stop until we are successful at restoring ExpressJet to a respectable operation.
On Tuesday, the NC and I will meet with (redacted) at the Ford and Harrison offices in Midtown Atlanta to begin, what we anticipate to be, meaningful talks. At this meeting we plan to set the stage for what we expect to transpire over the next 90 days to culminate on the one-year anniversary of the signing of Letter 2. We will be looking for daily progress, not weekly or monthly. We will be looking to provide solutions to the growing problems our operation faces. We will reiterate that our goals and management's goals are aligned and that restoring ExpressJet to a carrier we can be proud of and recommend to others is important to us. We have reason to believe that United Airlines will be interested in the solutions we have to provide, see that we are reasonable, and see that our vision for ExpressJet is one that will ensure our success as their most invested regional partner.