Originally Posted by
JediCheese
I came in after the temporary assessment so I can't say why they were levied initially.
But saying that, attorneys are expensive. Good and experienced attorneys in RLA are very expensive. I'd rather have too much saved up instead of not enough. And that's only one potential expense we may have to pay out for.
In case you are wondering, ALPA has $8,000 per member in assets on their last LM-2 form. That would put us at $8 mil for our pilot group at the same ratio, but we have none of the added resources of locals having extra assets to work with or extra redundancy by working for multiple airlines.
Somebody forgot to tell Jedi that Urban has never negotiated a cba for an airline or railroad. He has no experiencing negotiating an RLA contract. Might be problematic when we get to mediation? Oh well I’m sure the airline division will support us, all we did was fire Gleason and Untersherer, the people running it.
Urban had no airline experience until three years ago when we hired him. And yes we are his only airline client.
Having said all that, $10m is not enough for a strike fund so the assessment should go on, but when is enough enough that is all I’m asking…