Originally Posted by
rp2pilot
The MEC is privy to company financial data and has paid analysts to determine how much cash the company is burning. The ESrl's were negotiated prior to the passage of the Relief package. Nobody wants furloughs;. in that context, ,the ESRL's make more sense. When September 30th rolls around, the Hoi Polloi will be screaming at the union to cut everyone's hours and pay guarantees to avoid furloughing.
My feedback to LEC rep was to push to temporarily cut guarantees now across the board and put it out to a vote. The announcements will be sent well before 30Sep. This isn’t something new...with the exception of the United Pilot MEC during the Great Recession, almost every union pilot group mitigated furloughs using this form of unionism. There should be a big fight about stock buybacks after, but It is a farce to refer to unions mitigating furloughs through shared pain as a “concession”. I hope we are not a majority group that would vote to okay flying 90+ hr lines while thousands of our pilots go bankrupt and loose there homes.