Originally Posted by
757upspilot
Farley has already given the company the method of attack that he will respond to in a way that they want. He has repeatedly referred to the bottom 300 as hostages and if they are on the street when we go into contract negotiations we will have to deal with it. Either way on the property or off he has signaled the company on how to get him to concede to what they want. The company will simply threaten to layoff over and over again hitting his soft spot to wring savings from our pilot group, labor has to be rubbing there hands together over the prospect of him sitting in the Presidents seat. Do we continue with the MOU, absolutely. Do we call any pilot put on the street if the MOU doesn't satisfy the company a hostage, no. We proceed with our ability to not fly open time or accept JA and negotiate a contract from a position of strength.
Not sure I see it that way. At the moment the company has the numbers to back their threats. Confirmed by Andy M. and the Union. If, down the line, they try it again with no such numbers, the Union and the EB will have the fortitude to throw it back in their face.
Additionally, this argument that "we have given the company ammunition" to hurt us later down the line is hog-wash in my opinion. It always makes me laugh when people say "we have set precedence for them to lower our guarantee, get Preferential Bidding, and erase conflict bidding in later negotiations". Well if thats true, then we've also set precedence for a no-furlough clause and the ability to drop trips down to 35 hours guarantee. Do you really see UPS signing off on that? Never happen.