Originally Posted by Zard

I’m getting pretty tired of hearing the execs on Facebook tell us “be patient, this is all part of our strategic super duper secret plan!” Strategy implies a desired end state, unless the strategy is just ‘don’t lose my union job.’ I was patient for four years, voted no on what I thought was a substandard contract in spite of the sell job precisely because of weak language in terms of implementation, vacation weeks, sick leave usage during disability, crew meals, and hotel standards, and deadhead language, and now here we are.

The same people who brought us that weak language won’t even defend what we have in light of the company’s failure to live up to their half of the bargain. They wouldn’t even stop an extra contractual pay rate that stopped meltdown 2.0 this past Christmas. The union was too busy counting its 12 million dollar windfall to defend the contract, I suppose.

Getting called a petulant child on the other forum for asking SWAPA to do what we pay them to do is icing on the cake.

If SWAPAs goal is to have the BOD and execs as the only people who show up to any pickets in the future, then they’re doing an excellent job. I know I won’t waste any more time supporting them in contract negotiations after their behavior the last 8 months. I’ll just bide my time, vote no on the inevitable turd, and check out completely from union or company comms.

The 5/20 club goes both ways, SWAPA.