Willie,

We're going to have work on your reading skills, re-read the post. You and I both know that if gojets wouldn't have been an open-ended option for Hulas, he would've had no choice but to negotiate with TSA. All TSA wanted was what everyone else wanted, a better contract. gojets is directly responsible for undermining the existing contract, and hurting the efforts to negotiate a better one for TSA. The proof is in the facts, here we are 2009 and TSA is yet to get a contract.

Your take on the new company vs. an established company doesn't hold water either. The fact is a union at the local level is as strong as it's constituents, the original contract that gojets operated under was insulting, and the current one under the IBT is not much better. Take a company like Compass, their pay is not stellar, but they certainly make up for it with their work rules, that pretty much defuses any argument that a new company can't have a good contract.

You guys don't even have "block or better"! Face it, that's what alter-ego's are created for, to provide a similar product with a work force operating under a sub-par contract. Otherwise, what would be the point? He could have just operated the two certificates under one list. It's all common sense, it was a business decision to save money by circumventing an existing contract, and the ability of those working at TSA to negotiate for better conditions. Every time one of you guys goes to work at gojets, you reaffirm to people like Hulas that someone is willing to do it for less, and at the expense of anyone. I would be willing to bet that you will be one of the first people sending a resume to the United alter-ego in the works, because you don't think there's anything wrong with that either.