Originally Posted by
waflyboy
As long as we're on the subject, perhaps somebody can explain why Mesa's pilot group is unable to improve QOL, work rules, and wages through:
* enforcement of their existing contract (it gets violated every day, doesn't it?)
* collective bargaining
* legal actions against the company
Wow, where do we start with this one?
* enforcement: we have iron-clad scope language. IRON-CLAD. Some have said it is the best in any ALPA contract (I couldn't say). We gave up EVERYTHING... EV-UH-REY-THANG on our last contract negotiations to get it and kill Freedom A. WHY, I say, why is it that our scope keeps getting violated then??? Why?
* collective bargaining... bwahhahahaha!
You can only bargain when you have leverage. You'd think we would have leverage with the 800 pilots who quit last year. Heck, it was like a gradual strike against the company. Naw. It wasn't even a blip on mgts radar as far as contract talks go.
* legal actions... OK, this is the one I wanted to get into. We (ALPA) have taken I don't know how many issues to court to NO AVAIL. I don't care what they say, we lost the Harris deal. We lost the 700-900 base pay deal. We will lose the ERJ holdback deal (or simply get pennies on the dollar). After you have your tukus handed to you time and again for valid arguments you begin to not really care any longer.
So, there you have it.
