Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
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.
I agree and that is why I also made the point that if management actually did put the screws to the pilots then it says a lot of that management and make the case stronger for unionizing. I'm not sure they would do that mostly because I think they feel it would backfire on them. Or maybe I'm dead wrong since they are making changes that will lower their health insurance costs.