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Why would the company agree to something that cost them more money? Versus, “don’t like us going straight to IA? Then tell your pilots to be disciplined union members and stop making side deals.” This whole situation arose, IMO, because some people opened CS’s eyes to “help me help you” solutions. I’ve been here more than a decade and find it hard to believe CS has had the GS/IA switcheroo trick up their sleeve the whole time, just waiting to use it.
Maybe I’m being a little cynical, but I presume we’ll be having the “we didn’t expect them to do that” discussion about this in a few months. On top of that, are we really “helping” the company right before we enter negotiations? Seems like a strategic misstep in solving a major “problem” just as we go into negotiations.
There's very little change here for the company. The only thing that might cost them more is forcing the 23M7 identification, but they couldn't really complain about that because then they'd be admitting to violating the PWA.
From the companies side it only cost them a bit of programming time, which isn't even a rounding error for them. They didn't gain anything either.