Originally Posted by
captnate702
Management is telling recurrent that we will be paid top tier rates and retirement? that's the first i've heard of this. Even if we get quality of life, what makes you think management will follow the rules or that an arbitrator will enforce the rules?
I also thought i had thousands in pending grievances but that all disappeared in the sap arbitration that we inexplicably lost. exco said that was a for sure win for us and we lost. After that arbitration, i am convinced that what we need to is top tier rates and retirement ($$$$$) because that is something management and/or an arbitrator cannot take away from us. i don't blame the exco, it should have been no brainer. can we go to court like they did for the pbs award? how could we not win that arbitration is beyond me.
besides, even with the contract taking 3 years, the new contract will get here sooner than your "possible" arbitration award for your thousands in grievances. exco says we are in arbitration every month, but we only hear about three arbitrations for all of 2021 and all three were losers (VFN, segment basis and sap). why do we only three arbitrations in a year? i heard we were in arbitration last week for reserve day pay; i am glad we go to arbitration when we can but how long is it realistically gonna take the union to arbitrate all of these grievances??
I disagree with the “take the money and run instead of work rules” sentiment. We won’t have this much leverage to improve our work rules for a long, long time. Like you said previously, MG is not the typical CEO and he will fight those work rules, but remember he has one foot out the door already. He has discussed multiple times in investor calls that he is actively finding a replacement and while he will still have a presence here, I don’t think it’s going to be the MG show here at G4 like it’s been all along. Several airlines have had similar pasts with spiteful management pushing back on contracts. It won’t be like this forever. And when the labor relations improve, I want a contract with good work rules already in place instead of fighting for them later on. I’m playing the long game with that mindset and I think that is what the Union is doing here as well.