Originally Posted by
StlLifer
You are mistaken if you believe that section 6 requires GoJet or any other airline to promptly enter into a new CBA when one expires. It has 3 provisions:
1. Either party must give the other party at least thirty days' written notice of an intended change in agreements affecting rates of pay, rules, or working conditions, and
2. The time and place for the beginning of conference between the representatives of the parties interested in such intended changes shall be agreed upon within ten days after the receipt of said notice, and said time shall be within the thirty days provided in the notice., and
3. Status quo on the old contract until a new agreement is reached or the parties are released by the mediator for self help.
Nobody can force an agreement upon the other and the negotiations often take several years. Gojet's 2007 agreement ended in 2014 and a new CBA was entered 4 years later. If Gojet can entice pilots to come with low salaries but big bonuses they won't be in a hurry to increase everyone's pay.
I've never seen the contract, but everyone has said that it will go to arbitration at the end of the year and probably be implemented early next year. They said that it is due to a clause that was added to the last one to keep it from getting drawn out again. I've also heard that the bonuses did not work as intended, so we probably won't see that like it was again