Originally Posted by
Supermoto
Are you suggesting it won't pass as is? There is risk in negotiating further and everyone that would vote yes understands that further negotiating COULD result in a better contract. It is a valid position to keep negotiating, it all comes down to your appetite for risk (or your understanding of macroeconomics).
We could keep negotiating until the very last person is satisfied, but the system is set up to only negotiate until 50%+1 are satisfied. There is a place in our career field for those who want to do solo negotiating and that is the top of the corporate pilot world. You can be a free agent and fly for Taylor Swift or some king in the middle east and negotiate your own ludicrous contract if you are such a bad-ass pilot. It is disgusting to withhold a TA from the pilot group that would overwhelmingly be approved so you can get some stupid addition so you feel cool like a Delta pilot.
The "system" is not set up for 50%+1. That is a mgmt goal and should not be our benchmark.
What is the risk in negotiating further? Your money is always going to be there. The bar has been set in that regard.
We will now trail in most other sections that aren't LTD. Reserve, where we carry a higher percentage than every other carrier about 1/3 of the entire group, is about to take a nose dive with the new assignment system paired with ECS and codified ability to be reassigned into a day off. Our current reserve system is the best out there. Why are we moving backwards?
The board is protecting you from yourself at this point. Your desired payday will come. It might even come this week. Relax and let the process play out.