Originally Posted by
HiPlaneDrifter
Break it down into voting groups. Age 61 and older will likely never see another contract. Expect this one to be heavily weighted for them. Commuters are another easy standing subgroup to gain votes from. Reserves are nebulous because it is “usually” a short lived status that people will hold their nose and suffer through. Pay, travel, scope impact everyone….but if you get enough votes from just pleasing a few groups the TA passes. It doesn’t have to come down to carve outs, but that’s been the theme lately.
This is a ridiculous argument. I’ll make it simple. The company wants this to pass. So they are going to put pay raises in the contract. They are doing this to bribe the pilots to pass the agreement. We need to vote the agreement down and demand they remove the pay raises, since they are only in the contract to get us to pass it.