Originally Posted by
pipercub
The LOA I saw for Sunny only allowed up to 50% unstacking during specified months and up to 30% the rest. Unstacking triggered if uncovered trips exceeded 5% for that day. That maybe wrong but that's what i read. Do you really believe the company has or is offering anything on PBS close to industry. My guess is not, based on their track record for doing everything they can to avoid work rules of any type. If they company wants a deal why not just take the language of what Sunny has and be done with it?
Ask anyone from sunny for the loa. For sunny it’s all about open time. ALPA has to keep open time to 2%. If they can’t get open time to 2% with 50/50 unstacking then ALPA has to unstack until they get open time down to 2%. There is no limit. ALPA has to unstack until (could be up to 100%) if that’s what the scheduling needs are to get open time to 2%.
I’m not saying management is “in our side” or anything like that. Management is what it is. If they can take advantage of a crappy union then they will. IBT sucks, like legitimately they are terrible at representing professional aviators. I am not surprised one bit that management has been taking advantage of the IBT for more than a decade. That’s why I will always blame IBT because I pay their bills. I can be ****ed at management all I want, but they pay my bills. It ****es me off to no end that we have given the IBT a pass for over a decade. Do you really think we’d be in this mess if we had voted in ALPA 12 years ago?
IBT has screwed us. The millions we have lost are sunk costs at this point. We need to get what we can asap and then rip off the IBT bandaid once and for all and vote it ALPA. Then, and only then, will we have the strength in numbers, the unity, and the professional representation to achieve what we have long deserved.
for those that want to “wait it out” and hope for some magic fairy to save us. The magic fairy of attrition or an NMB release, y’all are just screwing us even more. JR, Robles, Josh Allen, and now Chairman Killen have been played for suckers by management. Those jokesters think management is scared of them and the IBT. Seriously, Robles, JR, Josh and Killen all thought that they’d be able to “win the negotiation” against management. They were stupid enough to think that they ever had a chance at beating management. How stupid can they be? The RLA will never let a union beat management. That’s the whole point. These morons bought into the Toonsters propaganda that they’d “crush” management like a hammer.
that is literally impossible with the RLA (unless O’Brien becomes president of the USA
The way to “beat” management is death by a thousand cuts - aka pattern bargaining. ALPA put the pattern bargaining plan in motion over 20 years ago and the entire industry (except for us) is benefiting from it (looking at you SWAPA, APA and Skywest pilots). It is incredible to me that ibt really believes the best strategy is to complain and blame management. That is all they’ve for over a decade. Again, ask yourself, would we be better off today had we voted in ALPA back in 2012?