Originally Posted by
dontsurf
yes, same here. remember the roadshows before ratification? i brought up all kinds of scenarios about reserve to the people who are now going to be in charge of negotiating the whole contract for us, and they told me that basically the company would not exploit loopholes or find other ways to screw us that weren't in the contract language, etc. every single objection i had, where i could foresee how the company would use it against us and not do what alpa was saying they would do, was shot down in this manner. they basically didn't even care about my concerns. and of course every single one of those concerns came true (plus more!).
I was with RV (negotiating chair) at Comair and we got bent over time and time again by the things that JC Lawson explained away with “the contract is vague, but they would never do that….”
So I had a great deal of faith that RV would remember his scars and he would not give JetBlue any slack when he worked out Contract 2018 and LOA 17. Key word… HAD.