Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
We are fighting for what will become the baseline when they come to strip stuff away in bad times.
Kirby isn’t a villain but he’s seemingly losing sight of how important happy labor is to his plans. Tumi should’ve resulted in an absolute corporate bloodbath of anyone who touched it, both at the ALPA level and at the company. We’ve cleaned house for the most part, Kirby is continuing on with the same yes drones that gave him tumi. They’re holding our pass backs for months. This is treading beyond fiduciary duty towards exploiting a cheaper labor group for another few months. At this stage of the game I think he’s at minimum painting a rosier picture than reality. Dishonest, borderline lying.
for anyone who’s met the guy, I just don’t see him as a maniacal labor-hater. I think he is out of touch, so I would attribute the missteps to ignorance rather than an evil genius or simple negligence.
most of us still feel pretty content at work and I imagine our NPS reflects that. Most people I fly with do not pass around the cups of vitriol that exist here and are waiting for the actual TA to assess the state of our management team. At that point, if we get a mediocre QOL improvements with penny-for-penny delta rates (a la AA’s deal) I think it will get voted down, then perhaps heads will start rolling… Luckily, I think our MEC has a very good idea of what our group wants, and that we are unified in our resolve to extract every thing we can out of this contract cycle.