Originally Posted by 9mikemike

The background to PBS at Alaska is this: We got to watch Alaska fumble the PBS ball badly with the FA’s when they voted it in. We have been agreeable to PBS for the last 3 contract cycles but not done the Alaska Airlines discount way…The company walked away from it every time. The FA’s are still getting screwed by Alaska’s frequent bungling of PBS. They have had PBS for 13 plus years. With no structural framework changes to our contract in this TA, no penalty clauses for the ongoing careless application of our current or future contracts, no retroactive pay provisions permanently negotiated in this TA, we can plan on years of fighting with management over PBS. We can also plan on years of unprecedented grievances as the mid-level management worms eat holes through this TA…