Originally Posted by
TsimShaTsui
I would ask you and everyone to stop arguing and row in the same direction, and try to have some semblance of unity, but that will never happen. The truth is, Tuck, that you and a good minority of the crew force will gladly vote yes on anything put before you so long as it has a pension bump and maybe a small pay raise. They could shut this place down and furlough everyone in exchange for $30K a year extra and you would vote yes. That’s the fundamental issue and that’s why we will
never be fully unified at this airline. Go ahead and recall the MEC and delay a new retirement another few years.
I’ve tried this line for 2 years. You are correct but they will never listen. Until we find a retirement solution to switch to that makes everyone happy instead of one that incentivizes single issue voting decisions to switch to we will always be divided. Can be as simple as just tying automatic raises to the pension. Or making pension raises retroactive back to amenable date. Both would eliminate the incentive to vote based on a single issue.