Originally Posted by
9mikemike
Reading what ALPA wrote and reading Will’s letter it has the same tone. -We were out-played, we were short-sighted and we took the bait. Now that we figured this out we are going to cry foul. We are going to turn this into a “do the right thing” moment and ask you to give us what we want even though a vast majority of us didnt want it before.- Seems almost childish.
There were folks who expressed valid concerns about the deficiencies in this contract and problems with the specific language that it contained but they were disregarded. Many were so convinced that a recession was right around the corner that they were willing to vote “yes” on almost anything as long as they got a pay raise of some type and their precious PBS. Stupid is as stupid does. In spite of all of this, I still hold a glimmer of hope that BM and ST will see the importance that compensation plays (among other things) in attracting and retaining pilots and will bump us up to industry standard Sept 1.