The MEC chair’s comm dated today, 8 mar 2024.
1) If the company’s counter offer, due on the 18th, were deemed incremental or unacceptable (subjective) the MEC would have “personally declared an impasse.”

What parameters are used in defining incremental and/or unacceptable? 5 percent off the mark? 10 percent? or would he base this on sense and gut instinct?

side note: the go-around analogy he used in the comm is now tired, overused, and in my opinion, unacceptable.

2) he then goes on a speculative and paranoid discussion regarding his recall, others control and power, and how the reps are pushing this TA further down the road.

well, maybe he should be recalled, supporting PM when PM failed us miserably the first time around and from all other comms appears to be failing us again.

why does the MEC feel that power and control should be centralized to his position? this mentality got us where we are now. Our previous MEC was all about it, as was PM, who is now somewhat contrite, same thing with our scheduling rep, who’s doing podcasts ad nauseam to what, save his job? given that he too was pushing hard for a yes vote on the failed TA, threatening furlough and the like, withdrawing those threats as soon as the TA failed.

keeping PM on task was nothing but kicking a ratifiable TA down the road. period. to think otherwise is foolish and, quite frankly, lazy. getting a new team us to speed takes effort, which the MEC wasn’t willing to do. so yeah, maybe recalling the MEC would best for us, collectively speaking.

3) he discusses possibilities with the NMB. some speculative.

ok. so we go down that road, don’t be scared. yes it is unfamiliar and full of cobwebs, but the road we’re on is a dead end - the signs are all there, he just doesn’t want to see them, or perhaps he is task-overloaded trying to remember his go-around procedures.

4) he closes with how adult he is in trying to maintain credibility with the NMB, in moving us forward from the “folly” of declaring an impasse, and how he wishes to regroup and refocus.

some would argue, perhaps 57 percent of the seniority group, that the folly was keeping PM on task when he clearly lied to us, when PM championed the company’s talking points, threatened us with furlough if we didn’t vote his way, divided the group by destroying QOL for junior members so that senior members could get a bump in retirement that doesn’t keep up with inflation or come close to IRS limits, and on and on, we all know why it failed. but the MEC kept the cook in the kitchen, and anything that comes out of that kitchen is going to be sent back because the chef sucks.

the MEC brought us here. he failed to lead, to make the hard decision in firing PM. obviously, he can’t lead the block reps, either, who are not only tired of this nonsense, but ready to commandeer the ship and steer it in the right direction.

he is right though, a go-around isn’t a good idea, and not because of the weather, but because the dangerous goods (mostly subclass PM) are noticeably toxic. don our masks and land this disaster the best we can, declaring it a total loss. lets get another jet, better pilots, and a sweet destination. it can be done. hard things require not only effort, but tough leadership.

all my opinion.