Originally Posted by
Falcon20
Dude you need to go sailing and have some fun. Your contempt for the union is amazing and it’s sad that you seem to want them to fail. Apparently you don’t want your bargaining agent to do well.
If I’ve read your posts correctly you were for TA1 and all it’s concessions, if we kept that crew we would already have a contract that would have fixed the QOL issues we seem to want. Now you blame the union for not doing management’s job for them.
While I’m not going to blindly follow our elected union leaders I can’t figure out why you are continually trying to undercut them.
Not once did I say I was for TA1 and I voted against it. I did post corrections to statements about the TA that were incorrect. I was very against the concession of a additional year in TA2 but voted for it on the strength of the package.
I am not trying to undercut the union. Their success is my success. I Don’t agree with how they are handling business. I recently saw a union rep with DPMA tags still on his bag. The guys running the union now pulled out every stop to undercut the union in the past.
The new group has produced exactly nothing in the 2 ½ years they have been in power. Zero meaningful improvements and little to no progress on a new contract. That contrasts to a constant stream of improvements that took us from a horrid chapter 11 contract in 2006 to a contract everyone on the forums agrees is so good we can work under it indefinitely by 2017. We fired all the TA 2 guys for this group. How is it working for you so far!
One last point. The union sticking with their not my problem stance is actually the very best thing for me. It could end up devastating for junior pilots.