Originally Posted by
Excargodog
A very real problem now is the attrition in management. no matter if NK becomes B6 or F9, most of management will not be coming along for the ride. That means most of them are fine tuning their own résumés and getting ready to make the leap themselves. It is not an atmosphere much conducive to fixing problems at NK because they too have an ‘on my way out’ mindset. Why negotiate a CBA? It’ll just be wasted effort, because a JCBA will still be required anyway. Besides, it might not be what whoever eventually owns the place wants for the starting position for the JCBA. More better to just take the golden parachute and go somewhere else rather than dealing with the messiness of the transfer.
The ones at greatest risk of getting screwed now are the senior guys with the most time invested in NK. For most FOs, they can hop to a legacy and break even financially on the switch and be right back to the same relative seniority in 2-3 years. For the senior guys, they’ll lose more and take longer to make it up.
We don’t disagree on the negotiating a CBA before a JCBA. Of course that’s not going to happen. You carry the attrition leverage into the JCBA w the new management. In the mean time the dumpster fire will continue but we aren’t going out of business. This place has been this way since I started here. Nothing new