Originally Posted by
1Seat 1Engine
The million dollar question: Why didn't it pass?
I honestly think that a lot of FO's are as mad at the Union as they are about anything.
The FO's I talked with really didn't like the introduction of more seniority based privileges into the open time and reserve system. That wasn't the company, that was Swapa. Many voted no to send a message to the Union.
I also think that if the company had simply grandfathered the Lance's this thing would have passed. They only needed to change 48 votes.
Everyone had some issue that was nagging them. Too many changes from the last contract seems to be the biggest problem. Too many pilots had their cheese moved, and instead of risking searching for new cheese, they voted to put the cheese back where it was.
I also thought SWAPA did a very poor job explaining their negotiating positions and why/where they got their vector from.
1seat,
Great question and post! I also believe the FO's are angry (Ya think?) and for other reasons than have been stated recently. You still have a group of younger FO's (and some younger captains) who lose sleep every night about the age 60 rule being changed. By gosh they had expectations and someone is going to pay! Those senior guys supported the change to 65 therefore my expectations have been damaged and I'll show them. BTW, I neither supported nor opposed the rule change but after the legacies pensions disappeared (most not all) I knew that their older pilots would now switch sides. Expectations vs. Reality and that movement of cheesey thingy.
Oscar
There are obviously many more things but nobody mentions the age 60 anger anymore.