Originally Posted by LoudFastRules

OK - I’m just fishing here... I want to at least try to stay open minded here. Can anyone explain why we should vote “yes” to this giveaway?

I understand that this agreement would benefit both corporations, and, of course, that could, maybe, trickle down to us somehow. I also clearly understand that the survival of my company matters more than anything else, so spare me the fear based arguments, please. Just take that out of the equation, because every pilot knows the goose could die on ANY day, in ANY conditions. That is completely out of our hands.

However, I was underwhelmed by the CBA, too, and came to realize that one of the stronger sections was section one. We had less value elsewhere in the contract, in exchange for higher value in section one. Fine.

Now the company wants me to give up some of that section one premium, but they are essentially offering nothing of real value in return? The company is punking us big time here. There are so many low or no cost QOL sweeteners they could have offered.

This is exactly when we negotiate profit sharing, too. If the company really said “don’t even ask”, our guys should have packed up and gone home.

Why should we give up our strongest language for nothing? The only guaranteed money here is the measly 2%, which is just an insult - a joke offering they have to be laughing at.