Originally Posted by
captnate702
in that sense then yes I agree, there will be opportunity for way more leverage during the JCBA no doubt. Totally agree.
right now, I think the leverage pie chart is a tiny slice for the union. That’s it. We can all thank JR, Robles, Josh, and all the IBT leadership etc when we see them for losing us all several hundreds of thousands. It’s infuriating how much they have screwed us.
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But I encourage all, to not pull the "trigger" preemptively. As I said, we're all fatigued, exhausted of having weak, reckless and selfish leadership (choose to blame who you want). As well as having a pilot group that's been too apathetic, and some almost being complicit to support the bad leadership. I don't expect perfection, never have, from either company or union. I want progress, and finally some form of results. For too long union leadership put their thumb on the scale and refused to let the pilots decide "what is good enough" for them. Refusing to be realistic of the cards they held, or accept the little to no leverage they had. Before the merger announcement, the IBT had NO IDEA or believed there was a possibility of the merger. As I've said, we've been lead by people that refused to see past their noses; myopic.
I believe this has changed with the election, and can ONLY HOPE the company still "remains committed to delivering a contract we can be proud of". From what I've heard, the mediator will not entertain ANYMORE nonsense. Fingers crossed for these two days.