Originally Posted by
OnlyTwoDayTrips
Since we're all throwing our .02 around I'll deposit my .02.
There will be no contract before summer. The company will do just enough to keep us out of any cooling off period. The summer will be a complete disaster and nobody is going to buy us. Ever since I was hired there has always been a rumor that we would get bought. This fall the company will reinstate the stock dividend because you know "we have to protect the investors." The final kick to the nuts will be the large bonuses paid out to upper management for the difficult year that they persevered through.
Even though we are an airline and only have one reason for being in business (flying airplanes) the company will never look at us other than a problem to be managed and taken advantage of. It will not get better. The good news is I'll be taking 20 days off each month this summer via 3rd step because after more than 23 years at Alaska I still can't hold a summer vacation.
Best of luck to us.
Years ago, I remember when they first started eliminating summer vacations, it was right after BM had returned from metrics school at Harvard. Someone wrote into the water cooler lamenting that they used to have summer vacation and asked when would they be coming back. Greg Haige (sp?) from Pilot Resource Management answered, basically telling this pilot that if they wanted summer vacation that they needed to quit and change careers. The reply lasted about 15 minutes before TK had it pulled down from the website