Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Was Shawn a part of the Administration that filed a grievance? Is he loyal to the administration that filed the grievance? My best guess is "yes."
Typically Contract Admin and the MEC Chairman will not file a grievance if the Scheduling Chairman does not share the opinion of Contract Admin. If a Committee Chair and CA do not agree, the Chairman of that committee typically resigns or is removed. Everyone needs to be unified.
We were right. There was no need for a concession. If the MEC (for whatever reason) wanted to relax batch sizes then they needed to put teeth into the coverage process - when coverage starts and visibility into that process.
So your answer is no, then.
The scheduling and contract administration committees were also parties to the settlement, so does that mean they agree with it or be fired/resign if the disagree?
There is often far more nuance in the filing of MEC level grievances than you suggest.
I’m not saying I agree with the settlement, my opinions are probably closest to RH. However, it’s not as unanimous and clear cut as you suggest in your posts. There are very real risks to proceeding to arbitration, as we saw with ATL airport closure and the Compass flow, both of
which were better cases than this.