Originally Posted by
TodKindrsChikun
Wadr what you describe is a 50+1 extension. A pay raise, a few tweaks, and current book on everything else. Once again we trash our leverage giving the company the relief it desires wrt the training pipeline.
It’s been 10 years since we’ve had a full contract. That wasn’t even a true contract considering all the opposing forces involved. During that time lived under contract extensions and LOAs frittering away leverage at each point. This is the reason our entire contract is so lacking.
You argue yet another extension with a me too clause because the company has no reason to come back to the table. That tells me you realize what we are signing is inadequate and hope another pilot will accomplish what we’re unwilling to do.
If we continue with this madness of extensions and LOAs, in the end we’ll essentially be working for hourly rates under a contract so woefully inadequate that we’ll never catch up. This career will forever be harmed. I for one am willing to wait as long as it takes.
PS…time to shelve Interest Based Bargaining. That will only lead to slightly cost plus agreements under a variable cost structure that the company so desires.
I’m definitely not arguing for it, but I think that is what we’ll see. I also don’t think it will be 50+1, more like 65-70% pass. Our reps represent the masses and not the small echo chamber here on APC. I suspect that the polling will show different results than what people argue here. On APC for example, nothing less than a complete rewrite of reserve rules are in order, but on the line I doubt that is where the majority want the emphasis. TA1 wasn’t a extension or LOA, it was in fact a new contract. It was a horrible deal full of concessions with a little add pay sprinkled around, but it was a new negotiated contract. There were also small gains in things like training pay, but those few gains were obviously grossly overshadowed by the gives. It’s not what I want, but I think that a 15+5+5 deal and removing the concessions from TA1 would in fact easily pass. A NB captain rate of $358 would be too hard for the majority to vote down.