Originally Posted by
Hedley
There are a bunch of hoops to jump through between a strike vote and an actual strike. It's a very important first step, but being released into self help is a long way away. Hope you guys get something worked out before then.
It has been mentioned before so I will just echo it. We will not be released to strike. It’s a vote of unity. It’s important to stand together but we aren’t going to be released. This is the same old crap that happened last contract (company dragging there feet not doing anything). We will probably not see something until about a year out from the legacies opening again for negotiations. We have for now lost our leverage of everyone hiring like they were. If they were hiring I believe we’d be much farther along. Because with the day turn model people are fed up with it and would leave if they had the opportunity. Now that goes to say not everyone is fed up but a lot are. Not to mention with all these base openings and the grand shuffle to those bases our QOL has been destroyed from what it once was. Take away the one okish thing we had with QOL and throw in day turns people would jet out the door. But since hiring has stopped we are apart of this company experiment, lost leverage and are sitting ducks for a new CBA.