Originally Posted by
pinseeker
Yeah, your right, what was I thinking. We’ve got it great. The contract is great. Lie flat seats and an A plan retirement that hasn’t changed in 20+ years are great. Let’s make the next contract easy and just take a less than 3% raise, you know, like the raise we took last time. They can just tell us that it is 3% or more and we will be happy because we have it great. We can tell them how good we have it and just make this contract continue until the end of the century.
The real issue is that the contract negotiations should not be done by any work group, period. Pilots fly airplanes, professional negotiators hammer out contract deals ........... This has been a chronic problem with our group but our union thinks they have to maintain job security by keeping a group of pilots in the war room with the company attorneys , as long as the pilot union maintains this status quo we will never ever see as good a deal as we could get