Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The MEC set the expectations. Had they started with setting reasonable expectations and stated why they were reasonable yes I think a ratifiable contract by the amendable date was possible. I posted back when our conceptually opener was published it meant we were not going to see a TA for many years and when we did it would be for what we could have had upfront anyway. Turns out it’s going to be worse than that. Expectations sure have dropped like a stone in the last 6 months. I once posted I expected about 1 billion a year in contractual improvements. Looks like we will be lucky to get even that and will have lost a entire 3 year contract cycle. What a disaster for the pilot group going forward.
The MEC doesn’t set my expectations. They represent my expectations. I know your school of thought begs for sheep to follow the blessed ones, but that ain’t the association I want to be a part of. I have decades left here, and I’ll not support further degradation in this profession. A ratcheting down of our qol and compensation every time disaster hits (9/11, BK, COVID, Inflation) simply isn’t acceptable to me and many of my peers. With less than three years left, I am sure every day we don’t have a TA feels like an eternity to you and your peers. I’m willing to wait for the right deal that claws back some qol lost over the years and. Holds on what we have managed to preserve. A big pay raise would be nice but it isn’t at the top of my personal list.
Time will tell, but I am to believe much of what could be in this TA will be worth the wait. Maybe not for you - but re-baselining qol expectations now will set a nice foundation for my many years of employment here. That stuff is hard to get back but I think we’re doing it. The MEC isn’t perfect, but man am I glad we didn’t rush to a deal this incompetent management team would have signed in 2019.