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Old 09-03-2020 | 12:12 PM
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Hedley
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Originally Posted by ReadOnly7
so you’re saying it’s the company not agreeing to anything?
I have heard that it’s certain Union reps who are being heavily lobbied to NOT let any sort of agreement see the light of day....for fear that it might actually be supported.
What you are hearing isn’t the same as what I’m hearing.
Honestly.....I don’t have any faith in any sort of agreement actually passing a vote.....but suppressing it beforehand is offensive to me.
I’m just saying that there are two sides to this coin. I’m sure that the union is being lobbied by the majority of pilots to hold the line, and I’m sure that the company is trying to use this to lower a business cost by making lowball offers. I’ve contacted my reps with my view, as I’m sure that you have also. Having been down this road before, I’m a definite no for concessions to the contract, but I’d give honest consideration to some type of association-based plan. Historically the company has a way of turning temporary concessions into the new normal, and I’m not willing to go down that road again. Negotiating from the basis of a weakened contract just means that we blow all of our negotiating capital trying to get back to where we started. There is nothing good about this. We are all worse off because of this, some much worse. I’m sorry that you got the letter. I remember the feeling that I had looking at my wife and young kids when I got mine, and it’s awful, but the needed cuts are extreme and I don’t think that much can be done to do much about it. The one saving grace that we have a training jam at TK. I hope that we get a vaccine this fall, I hope that enough people come back to significantly reduce the furloughs, and I hope that it happens before we get through the 2850, much less the full (for now) 3900.
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