Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
They have sunset clauses on any concessions. At Republic they only apply to the people who were getting downgraded/furloughed anyway. It’s not “gutting the contract” if the contract snaps back to normal after a year.
no they provide a new entry point for further negotiations from a extreme position of pilot weakness. Rule No. 1 of negotiations. Never reopen something from a position of weakness. Keep it closed.
Also those ‘temporary’ provisions will be a new lower starting point for imposed concessions when/if RAH and/or UAL take another trip through BK court.
The time to negotiate furlough contract language is during the up cycle when no one wants to spend negotiating capital on it. Not during the crisis.
In essence they lower the bar and make the profession less worthwhile on the other side of the crisis.