Originally Posted by skywatch

Sorry, I will spell it out - but keep in mind my original post was a question directed at someone else. I am assuming that offering voluntary furloughs, etc. is out of the companies control because alpa will not negotiate. I am assuming that for the obvious reason - the company was willing to negotiate with IBT. Maybe because IBT does not have a personal vendetta against DS?

You think this ALPA group is reasonable? I don't. I see them dropping an ASAP program for no good reason other than to try to make mgmt look bad. Talk to some of the old union safety guys - find MS and see if he thinks that was the right thing to do. That's why I think alpa has some blame here - if IBT could do it, why not them?

I assume we accept that the company is not allowed to do these things without alpa (a contract), right? So if alpa won't sit down and negotiate for them, how can the company do these things? They can't. That is my point. Therefore, I reject this idea that this particular instance proves the company is not interested in saving costs.