Originally Posted by
G-Dog
The idea, I believe, was to get some improvements to the IBT CBA through amalgamation and then improve on those through the Section 6 negotiations.
I understand that is the idea, and it is flawed.
Do you think the company is going to just throw in our pay and work rules because we want them. Most of our scheduling section doesn't work with your CBA because you have PBS and we have hard lines. Duty and trip rigs, not gonna happen. Add/drop/swap, not gonna happen. They will cut and past the bus pay rates for the airbus flying and called it a amalgamated cba. End of story.
Meanwhile, you could be negotiating for all of the things that you currently do not have, but you are doing nothing instead.
The only way to guarantee that we do not have to work under the IBT CBA is to get rid of the IBT. Everyone remains status quo until the new CBA. We keep the CBA that we negotiated and fought tooth and nail to defend, and you keep exactly what you deserve. We elect a new union and start from scratch.