Originally Posted by
Fly76
From Union email
“Today, I spoke with American Airlines CEO Robert Isom and met with Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Steve Johnson to determine whether management shares our commitment to doing what’s required to produce a TA that truly matches our industry competitors — a TA worthy of consideration by our members. I was accompanied by members of the Negotiating and Economic & Financial Analysis committees and two of our attorneys. Mr. Isom and Mr. Johnson both acknowledged that significant improvements must be made, with Mr. Isom reiterating his assertion that management “will take care of our pilots.” Our respective bargaining teams have committed to working around the clock beginning tonight for the next few days to address crucial improvements to the TA.”
Sure. The question is are they simply going to throw a few more dollars per hour at the pilot group and say vote on it or are they going to go get the substantive improvements in QOL that they didn't get the first time...which this time includes one more day a month off, every month, for every reserve pilot. That's just shy of an extra two weeks of vacation time a year that United has, that American doesn't. If Isom thinks that's not going to be affecting the decision making of new hires, he's mistaken.
But perhaps American's management team is content scraping the bottom of that barrel as long as they will work more for less.