Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The union just heard about this yesterday? It should have been virtually the only topic of discussion for the last 2 months. The contract negotiations are essentially dead and probably just need to be shut down. Some don’t seem to grasp the magnitude of this just continuing through the summer. It will take years to recover.
We should have and in years past would have been far more involved. We could have helped shape the process of how flight ops handles the coming changes. We could have been involved in crafting packages including leaves, Ultra long call, SIL’s, split months, early retirements and training changes among many other options. It would require forward looking union leadership with people who can think outside of the box instead of the current not my problem union mentality.
Instead we sit waiting for the Axe to fall.
...so, the chicken little response then, OK. By outside the box, do mean do managements job for them? If an axe is to fall the non-cons will be the canary in the coal mine. When their pay gets cut the sky might be falling but I tend to think it will just be the 4th floor higher ups flushing the toilet. Can't let a good crisis go to waste.