Originally Posted by
Liberty
This is my first airline but I’m catching on to the negotiating strategy and it’s painful. We continually get punched in the nose until we negotiate that we can’t be punched in the nose. Then we’re continually punched in the ear until we negotiate that we can’t be punched in the ear. Then we’re continuously punched in the eye until we negotiate that we can’t be punched in the eye anymore.
It gets really bad at contract time. then we start to get punched and kicked in five places but union “negotiating capital” says we can only negotiate the pain to stop in 2-3 places.
You forgot the part about the 5 people in the pilot group incessantly and hatefully harping on the union failures without ever actually putting their own name on the ballots or showing up for all-call recruitment for committees. Those people owe everything they have here to the folks at SWAPA who got it for them, but they never pass up a chance to find something to try to blame both the union as a whole or someone in particular for. You can identify most of them because they're the ones asking questions they already know the answer to, hoping someone at the union will bite on the bait and become the face of the apparently endemic union failures that have destroyed all of our lives. Because as you can see, there's nothing but miserable poverty and victimhood here (where's that rolleyes icon when you need it)