Originally Posted by
ChickenFinger
I’m gonna get flamed here as usual, but the ones that are a hard No just seem like they want to take take take.
While this the first airline negotiations/TA I have been through, I have been involved in many similar negotiations before. The point of all negotiations is for two parties to come together with a list of wants, and ultimately compromise on both sides to come to agreement.
Except airline managements have been playing what’s-mine-is-mine, what’s-yours-is-negotiable for decades. Corrected for inflation, most major airline pay is less by far than what it was in decades past. Pensions have been lost, perks have been cut, B-scales have been implemented, scope has been surrendered, sometimes salaries have just been rolled back altogether.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/09...9171527313600/
Ever hear of a guy called Kasher?
https://archive.seattletimes.com/arc...g=webalaska02m
So finally, after decades of being on the losing end of compromises, the negotiating advantage has switched to labor.
ALPA ought not to be compromising this time, it’s their turn to make nonnegotiable demands.