Originally Posted by
Hedley
TA2 isn’t going to get shot down. The company needs it to staff their expansion and they’ll take just enough of the garbage out of TA1 to ensure that it passes. They’ll bump the rates, keep our current scope language, and pay LCA’s by the trip. Over 50% will vote yes rather than wait the 2-3 years for a full rewrite. The reserve rules and scheduling efficiencies in TA1 will remain. Once TA2 provides the needed incentive to fully staff the training department, our leverage will evaporate and we’ll live under the agreement for years past the amendable date.
TA 2 may not be negotiated fast enough to get shot down. internet polling and telephone polling will take about 2 more weeks. Then, the data has to be mined. Information has to be racked and stacked. Fancy pie charts, and graphs, etc., must be prepared.
I predict LC 171 will fall within a month. Then, it's a brand new world. The company would have to offer big money, and in 2 weeks time in order to change our "status quo" in union/ALPA terms. After that SFO falls in October. Likely before the BOD.