Originally Posted by duvie

I think the consistent concern by those who are willing to entertain a temporary lowering of MPG, is that the common refrain:

”I don’t know how they’ll screw us, but they will.”

is clearly not well thought out. In it,
fear and skepticism are dress up as wisdom. Categorical and Unexamined thought is never wise.

we’ve all been burned by the corruption of crony capitalism and unbelievable bias of courts against labor, but the thing at stake herE is your fellow united pilots’ jobs. The argument isn’t for payroll savings, it for concrete block hours.

if our union crafted an LOA for temporary MPG change, then its part of the UPA. If we are in a position where are UPA is being abrogated, there are MUCH worse things to worry about than MPG.

retirement contributions, pay rates, furloughs out of seniority, reneged moving expenses, do I need to go on? If the whole contract is up for grabs, I’m not super worried about only flying 60 hours in October and January, I’m TERRIFIED that my job as I know it is over. So this slippery slope argument is not based in reason, it’s based in fear. Perhaps Fear that management is once again playing chess while we play checkers, or that the same people who become federal judges probably belong to the same country clubs as our executive leadership.

Whatever the fear, it’s obvious that the reasons against a temporary LOA are based on what-ifs and worst case scenarios. The reasons for it are here now and there will be a fixed amount of block hours to be divided up among X amount of pilots.

when the union leadership comes down with their decision, after hopefully examining the options thoroughly, i won’t Monday-morning-QB it. But while the decision is still out there to be made, anyone who advocates that we don’t discuss this and formulate our OWN opinions is not anyone I can respect. I support our union’s decisions, but I would never encourage anyone to allow another to think for them.