Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Yes Tom, that is the bottom line which you have said all along.
I have heard an interesting rumor though. Given your thesis above, the rumor is that there already is a negotiated list. A combination of the two proposals. However, unless both sides got to see how extreme the list could have been, there would be no hope of seeing the negotiated list as positive by anyone. The theory is that both MEC's could live with the following conversation by their members: "Yes this negotiated list sucks, but it's a hell of a lot better than that DAL/NWA proposal would have been!"
Carl
Carl,
If there is a "deal", that's the way they should play it -- preferably revealing the compromise just before the arbitrators act. It would minimize the wailing and gnashing of teeth, and prevent something even less satisfactory from being imposed. Then it will be up to the membership to do their part: restraint of tongue and keyboard. I fully support the right of free speech, but not everything that
can be said
should be said.