I can write with full knowledge and career experience the “career protections” in our contract have only been as good as the economics associated with it.

What has worked well for “protections” has been the furlough recall rights and limiting, via a ratio, the number of outsourced operations. These type of things tend to make senior management and all their dreamers think twice before making a deal.

Let’s say it curbs their enthusiasm a bit.

But if the Corp starts bleeding cash nothing really will “protect” jobs.

Also the “buy it and fly it” mantra left the coop quite awhile ago. The question before our negotiators is how will we manage these operations from our contact point of view.