Originally Posted by
notEnuf
Some things are worth making the stand for. SCOPE (for me at least) is one of them. This is not a huge gamble. The language is the language. IF we lose what have we lost? Maybe a little leverage if we intended to negotiate them back into the fold anyway. I don't want them back unless they come to mainline. If management was not supposed to operate them through the pandemic it seems clear to me they are gone. If we lose we go back to the status quo of a feel good LOA with no real benefit, that's not a loss but rather a stalemate with a huge effort (show of force) that SCOPE will be defended and retaken.
I am not disagreeing with you. My point is that if the deal was in fact intended to be a one time specific agreement with a flow down to Compass and Compass only, why are we even having this discussion? I am flabbergasted, bewildered, dumbfounded [insert your adjective here] that the if the union thought this deal was exclusive to Compass they couldn't come up with the proper verbiage for the PWA.
Either:
The deal was never intended to be exclusive to Compass.
DALPA and our legal counsel are incompetent.
There is really no other explanation for the situation that we find us in. Maybe some DALPA guys thought it was the former but never checked the verbiage but what about the NC and the legal review? How could they let it go through if the intent was a Compass only exclusive flow?
Scoop
