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No LOA’s during section 6!
Why is the union on a road show trying to sell a training LOA that only truly benefits the company during contract negotiations?? I could care less about the rinky dink, paltry items they want to trade away a large leverage point we have in this negotiation for. You have to ask yourself why the company wants and or needs this. The savings they put out don’t tell the whole story. Sure I would like to have AQP, but not at the cost of allowing them to have even less incentive to get the contract done. AQP may save them what they said just in “training” costs, but being able to train in MCO saves them a ton more. We already have that coming in the new contract, allowing them to do that with an LOA gives them those savings without having to secure a new contract. It’s a misdirection play, NO LOA’S PERIOD!!! Until we have a contract. FUPM!
I would agree on the training loa. Is that what’s going on? Any reason given?
Having said that no loa period is a bit of a stretch. If you believe you’re about to lose some language (that was going to happen with reassignment language last round) in arbitration and can solidify some gains while clarifying language it can make sense that do a loa. Outside of that yes I agree.