Originally Posted by
Finessed
You call this a lowball offer? What AA management just did was a lowball offer to kick off negotiations. Scottie just sent a big FU package to your door with a “Read It And Weep” TA inside. Yeah you have two big problems Joe, your representation sucks but so does your management.
Management isn’t the problem here. The problem is that the union negotiated gains in all kinds of areas that the pilots did not care about, and gave concessions in areas that were near and dear to us.
The overtime provision I’m sure was quite expensive to negotiate… But if you asked any pilot if they would trade our scope on the 550 or our PI‘s for that, you would get a resounding NO (as the vote will show)
Or if you asked most reserves if they would rather have a shorter, later showing work block, but be messed with for four days or have a longer work block but more predictability within said block… almost all would choose the former. Not understanding what the early upgrades or the 777 pilots were going through because of the Pratt issues, is the epitome of the issue here: their priorities were completely screwed up. I’m sure the TA was worth a significant amount of money, but the union completely miss managed our priorities.
I honestly don’t know how you fault Kirby for any of this. Except that he put his trust in people that did not deliver him close to palatable TA