Originally Posted by
Varks
I have been holding out hope for 24 years. Don’t count on it. Management does not understand how our QOL lags behind our ALPA brothers and sisters. They will offer us the money but no way the QOL will be anywhere near what it should be. If you don’t live in an AA base don’t bother applying. We suck.
I
GENUINELY mean no offense by this, but it’s this kind of self-deprecating talk that management wants. Management understands exactly what’s going on. I believe we are sunsetting the time in which our collective negotiating power is strongest. The time to act is
now to push for what we deserve. I do not mean that we quickly negotiate something sub-par. I mean that we, like DAL, give management our major contractual gains and let them know that we want them with no concessions. If this takes 1.5 years (or more) to negotiate, fine. But we may never find a time like this again in which we have this leverage.
I’m all in on making AA a better place; not just for pilots, but all employees AND customers. I’m cautiously optimistic that we can achieve this.