Originally Posted by
Funk
It may be, but they wasted 2+months of free delay by simply going through the motions until the end of March before a joint application for mediation would be in order. Walking away and immediately asking for mediation doesn’t seem consistent with a ‘run out the clock to get through summer’ strategy. If management is full of evil geniuses that are hell bent on not paying a nickel more and simultaneously squeezing the last ounce of work and life from the pilot group, how does potentially advancing the clock towards getting a third party involved work towards their ends?
As I have posted several times by asking for mediation now management does not have to put a table position on the key sections of the contract out until well after summer is over. Most of you have not been here when positions the pilot group found objectionable were put out. Management remembers.