Originally Posted by newKnow

When the company terminated your pension plan, were they “really negotiating?” Or, did you just wake up one day and find out you had lost $100,000 for every year that you lived past the age of 60?

Or, how about in C2012 when the company included an offer to buy SWA/AirTrans 717’s, when we knew they wanted them whether we ratified the agreement, or not. Was that really negotiating?

Same thing for the early retirement plan offer and drawdown of the 50 seat RJ’s. Things that they already wanted were included as “improvements” to our contract. Was that really negotiating?

Finally, how about in 2015 when they tried to offer us pay raises that were to be paid with the money we would have given up with the loss of our profit sharing?

So now, in 2020, when the company is making so much money that they can buy ownership of airlines, buy stock back, and give pay raises to other employee groups, while doing nothing to fix the debacle that occurred last summer, (other than to reduce the amount of summer vacation weeks for us), if our union isn’t “really negotiating” when it comes to restoration of our (as in everyone’s) retirements, vacations,
schedule flexibility, and other contract improvements, I’m fine with it.

Taking a hard line like that is long overdue.