Originally Posted by
StangDriver
The agreed TA'd sections of the previous NC probably would have passed if the company actually followed through with the pay proposal. If I'm not mistaken, those sections were absolutely contingent upon a high proposal. Since the company didn't follow through, yes you are correct in the current MEC yanking them.
We have been in negotiations for 2.5 yrs now, about the same time as SWA and Alaska who just agreed to a TA and sent the vote for membership ratification. Funny how they did all this in a bad economy like you said. Just shows that our management will not move forward until their hand is forced.
To me, the truly selfish people here are going to vote NO because they are comfortable in the left seat and could care less about those in the right seat.
Stang, how long did the 2007 NC work on the actual pay negotiation?
I'll tell you, the entire time that that committee negotiated pay was spent under the sceptre of a political changeover. The incoming reps (except the FLL FO Rep) were telling thier buddies that they were pulling all of the TA's.
The company was NOT going to offer pay, much to Russo's chagrin, when the incoming reps were promising to pull the TA's.
This opinion that the MEC pulled them because the company failed to respond is pure poppycock. The ALPA lawyer pulled training and scheduling (before the new reps even took office) when spirit failed to meet his deadline for a pay counter, but the rest remained. The incoming MEC could have, should have, sent their negotiators in and NEGOTIATED.
We will never know what might have happened had the union negotiators gone in with the power of their huge election win and used that advantage to get the money offer. They came into office with a huge mandate and threw that advantage away. I thought that they would succeed, I even thought that they were just who we needed to finish off the contract. I thought that they were right for the time.