Originally Posted by
DashTrash
This is a negotiation, so by definition both parties have to come to an agreement. I think that is where we are now. We are not willing to agree to concessions on scope and because of that, the Company is not willing to agree to what we want. As I've said before, EVERYTHING in our CBA has a price. Everything that the Company wants has a cost. Same goes with us. We are in a stalemate until one party blinks. If we caved on scope, we would probably have an AIP inside of a month. I for one am not willing to pay that price!!! The cost is too high!!!
The biggest stick that we have relating to scope is time. The company really does need more big rj’s to be competitive. We have a bunch of junk 50 seat jets where the competition has much better regional product. We can either cave now and get a few more dollars per hour or wait this out and get a much better contract. The rj’s flown by United pilots crowd isn’t going to get what they want, but we are in a position to gain back more by waiting than by rushing to just sign something. I’m willing to give anything relating to scope an honest read, however if it weakens our position at all, then the rest of the contract is not worth reading. We downsized considerably while the regionals boomed. It’s time to go the other way.