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The payout is an excellent idea and everyone I talked to also agrees. Most don't want the risk of it not being paid later. The union is calling the company's bluff since they have been saying they want to just pay it out for a while now. I think the company does want to get it off the books and some attrition after would help them with their overstaffed headcount but we'll see how they play it. A pay rate only after the payout would be a terrible idea but a TA signing bonus instead would fill the gap between then and now.
There is no "he" in terms of getting a TA, if you talk to any of our pilot negotiators they will confirm they are free to TA any sections without higher up approval. They are simply working off of our survey results. The NMB will be watching closely and if company continues to offer below the standard of mesa airlines they will have that status meeting that they are currently still considering.
This is laughable, we have no credibility with the NMB. We couldn't even get a sit down with them. IBT said we were at an impasse, nothing left to discuss, no possible way to move forward, blah blah blah...
Yet now, miraculously, we are going to give managmeent our first scope, pay, retirement and benefits pass? how does that look to the NMB and the mediator? Four months ago there was nothing left to bargain about; fast forward and now we can bargain over everything? we just wasted a year of negotiations by refusing to give managmeent scope, pay, retirement, etc. and now after asking to be released we are giving management everything they asked for the past ten months and that is somehow a "strategic" move from IBT?
IBT has been completely out manuvuered and shot themselves in the foot over and over and over again. this is just the latest. we have incompetent union representation and incompetent managemment - not a winning combo.