Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Last time around, we negotiated a common contract in about 3 days. Now we've waited for over a month just to set a date for talks, and now that 3 days of talks have ensued, still no agreement at all. Can you say stalling??
Last time around (the February Negotiators TA that was never presented to your MEC, much less approved by your MEC) took nearly 6 weeks to produce (January 11-February 21), not the 3 days you describe. That was done when oil was $90-$105 per barrel, not $135. Back then the parties were talking about taking part of the profits from the merged company. The scenario now is one of management trying to minimize the losses of the merged company. That's a significantly more difficult negotiation.
Of course, there are still members of the NWA team that think that DALPA made up all the deadlines to get a pre-merger deal done.
