Originally Posted by
tom11011
According to AR video April 16th, the hurdle they are working on is what happens if the contract is violated. To paraphrase, they are aware that without these protections, the rest of the contract could be meaningless. The first 1 minute and 20 seconds describes the issue perfectly.
According to AR video May 7th, things are looking up. I don't have any reason to doubt him right now so cautiously optimistic. Some bold statements were made to that effect, not that it can't change for the worse but I assume he believes what he says.
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I do not see anything that says simple normal progress is not being made. I am happy for the time being to let this team do its work and withhold judgement for a later date. I hope my feelings are not misplaced but time will tell.
I get that he wants certainty for what happens when the contract is violated. But the certainty is arbitration. There is no other mechanism to enforce the contract with the RLA hanging over our heads.
The problem is we keep getting told that arbitration wins are coming but then we keep losing the “industry standard” arbitrations. Union was super confident about VFNs, rental cars, SAP going abg, Merlot, etc. and we’ve lost all of them. If we lose the RAPs one then that is a long losing streak.
The strategy worked for a while but something happened and now all do we lose. I don’t want the hope of winning arbitrations to enforce the next contract. This just seems like stuff to make the exco and AR’s job easier. He’s not some selfless leader that is just trying to serve others (see his PGD line every month), he’s a politician making sure he gets his and imo all this noise about sections 18 and 19 are more for his benefit than mine.
Just pay me more money. Make vfns 300%, increase my guarantee, increase my rates, top notch retirement DC, etc. all those numbers cannot be argued or manipulated. Those numbers I know I will get because numbers do not lie.