Originally Posted by
Deuce130
You're more optimistic than I am. Given the email from DW, it appears the company is going to cut our BLG. My prediction is that they will provide the union with "proprietary, confidential information" that will not be shared with the crewforce. DW and the NC will then rubberstamp the company's plan to cut our pay. The MEC will then rubberstamp DW's decision. Denials and explanations will follow, all of which will fall short of making any kind of sense. There will be no snap-back clause and we'll have a permanent reduction in our pay, making negotiations for 2010 pointless. Once again, DW is going to take us down a road that most of us don't want to go down. And he'll collect his 90+ CHs a month while he's doing it.
I do not think the contract can be changed in this manner by the MEC and DW alone. Do not these types of changes require a LOA? I know the ones who voted for LOA2 "not Me" gave the MEC Chairman change authority for the FDA's but not the entire contract.