Originally Posted by
Speedbird34
People change their position! And there are no permanent interest. That is politics. I heard the word posturing used a lot in the past.
The space man says it all. No big deal it will work out one way or another. The last thing we want is a 100% vote in favor. This TA is not that great!
What IS great is we have BOTH unions working together to make us 1 solid pilot group so we can avoid a USAIR mess and a career full of animosity. Could the TA be better? Maybe, but ask your friends at UAL or any of the countless airlines that have gone TU this year, what they think about it. Or ask some USAIR or America West pilots what they think about us working together. We have a real opportunity here to do something different which is ultimately a step in the right direction for this crazy airline industry. If we can pull this off we will have no reason not to get an industry leading contract once our negotiating ability is better.
I am typically a no vote on the first round but sometimes you just have to know when to take it and run. IF you look around the industry right now, the fact we are getting anything is a plus. Right now we just dont have enough negotiating power. Getting this done and making a strong pilot group and airline for all of us is worth far more than a couple extra bucks an hour IMHO. Now is the time to join up and start building up the warchest for the next round.
Vote how you see fit but at least get informed and go to the roadshows before you make your judgements. A few of you NO guys were screaming NO the day the announcement came out that both sides ratified this. That was before we even had much information and well before any roadshows so to say its a NO already just shows you are making uneducated decisions or your doing it because you never wanted NWA pilots to be treated as equals. Which is it?