Originally Posted by
Captainbfv
The ALPA drive has stalled out, not bc it wasn't collecting cards rapidly, BUT, you are correct my friend. Many have disengaged because they took the bate from GU. To move the goal post and give a "glimpse" of hope with the union's comprehensive proposal. An absolute majority want ALPA but many have now fallen for the "trick", that passing the comprehensive proposal was the union's move to be more "reasonable". Even though some things in the comprehensive proposal are beyond unreasonable, and they continue to die on the the hill of unstacking. Which majority of pilots don't care. Now with the goverment shut down, and negotiations getting major set backs on stalling, the union can claim that they are willing but the company isn't.
It's not over yet, because depending on what the outcome of the elections are, and how GU handles himself, the ALPA drive might pick up again. God only knows what else will shake this place with so many talks of possible mergers in the industry. So buckle up folks, it's about to get interesting.
I wouldn’t say a reasonable proposal is “taking the bait.” There are obviously things in the proposal that are unreasonable, that’s the point of negotiations. I am no a GU supporter, but do feel the NC has at least shown effort into making a deal while the company has not. If the company produced any effort then we’d have an agreement already.
unstacking is an interesting topic bc of how great our scheduling currently is. There probably should be some sort of criteria if a base is x amount of pilots then it’s 30/50 and if its x amount then its 50/70, but obviously have no knowledge of what would make sense without looking at numbers. The problem we could run into is if we do 50/70 and then the company grows exponentially (and opens more bases), ultimately screwing over many pilots. Might have to consider a criteria for that as well.
Me personally, I’d prefer to just keep what we have but the company would never go for it due to how inefficient it is