Originally Posted by
Nevets
As soon as a union is voted in, you go into status quo. So the company is not allowed to change any of its current policies or practices (written or unwritten).
What you're saying is all true, but has very little to do with my comments.
If management were to acquiesce to the fact that OO pilots will unionize, now is the time for them to put the screws to the pilots before the "freeze" period of a union drive. Therefore, the status quo would be as low as they wanted to negotiate from (take, now, whatever retirement, medical, vacation, profit sharing, etc).
Since I lived through the last union drive as a SAPA rep, I'm intimately familiar with the freeze concept. We couldn't get anything done.