Originally Posted by
flycrj200
I would not compare our MEC now with the MEC during the strike. They have nothing to do with each other. Our MEC now is shortsighted, and just like our company, wants to benefit a small group of people not the whole pilot group. The MEC have a personal vendetta against DS and the management team. That is not a benefit for us. When you negotiate with someone, it’s a give and take game. You have to be fixable to obtain what you want.
The MEC of today is trying to vindicate what they perceived as wrongs committed by the company during the era of the strike. They were not the acting MEC but they were on property at that time and they are still using the narrow minded way of thinking that created the strike in 2001. Everyone admired the new contract out of the strike, giving Comair some of the highest pay rates in the industry. However, times have changed, big time! Soon after the new contract was signed, 9/11 occurred. Then a few years later bankruptcy and then oil was $140 per barrel. Our MEC seems to be stuck in the pre-9/11 days, riding the high of the 'good ole days' with a new contract and cant seem to get why the company is in the position it's in now. And with the wave of pilots hired here post-9/11 and post bankruptcy, it's incredibly disappointing that the current MEC has lost sight of these facts and continues to try the tactics that caused the strike in the first place in an environment that is 100% different than in 2001.