Originally Posted by
captnate702
I'm not sure if that is good or bad? it looks like the blind leading blind. I have no idea who's done what on management side except for googling linkedin profiles.
who on our team have been in negotiations before? isn't it just Hegland - and he's the one that negotiated our current contract so that's not very comforting. AR, Kenny, Valenzuela, Jay and Josh haven't - i don't believe - ever been in negotiations before. Maybe i'm wrong. i know our culinary attorney has negotiated contracts just nothing RLA related.
https://www.atlasairworldwide.com/20...bor-relations/
DM was a consultant for F&H and then left to be SVP at Atlas. no idea if he quit first and then went to Atlas or what. maybe you know what he was thinking when he left allegiant high and dry.
I know that JK was active in the union at his last carrier, and I thought he had experience in their negotiations. Not 100% sure. TBH, I don't know if any of the others even have union experience at any other carrier.
As far as MU is concerned, from all accounts, he is pretty sharp and at this point, we probably only need someone smarter than the company guys, which isn't too high of a hurdle. I can't imagine that the union wouldn't bring in an actual RLA attorney to assist if we ended up going to the NMB. However, that's all stated using logic and common sense. In reality, I guess we'll have to see.
SH was in at the beginning of the last negotiation, but I thought he was removed in favor of 1224's crack team of negotiators. Not sure how much of the current CBA can be attributed to him or what role he actually plays now other than having the ability to say "HA! We have a more experienced team than you do." I'm pretty sure you can add up all of the negotiations that everyone in the room has been a part of and it's less than the number of negotiations he has been a part of. My only concern with that is, what is the quality of those deals? Quantity is definitely NOT quality. Especially where Teamster airline contracts are concerned.
As far as DM, that's the word I was hearing back when he left. I heard he basically told MG what a cluster his team was and peaced out. I obviously wasn't there, so who knows for sure?