Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
Please. What are you going to do? Quit? There are thousands of guys who will gladly take your spot for $20k/yr.
Job Action? Sick out? Pamphlets? Refuse to fly on SkW planes? What exactly do you think you have leverage with? I don't see it.
All bluster. Reminds me of a union leader I knew who was pretty good at speaking. A natural. Good at stirring up the troops.
But, the smartest thing he ever said, "this union does not now, nor will ever, hold all 4 aces. Never. And when push finally comes to shove... if we can't win in Congress, court, public opinion, etc, we will each go to work, just like we do every day.
You may not be happy, but you will go to work, and live to battle another day."
Go file your lawsuit. But don't threaten bad things if you don't get your way. I suspect SkW, Inc would love to hire hundreds of $20k/yr employees to replace as many 10 year veterans as they can.
Tony, I think you're putting words in our mouths. Taking the risk of fighting to enforce our contract, and accepting the possibility it may kill the deal and XJT
may go Bankrupt and we all lose our jobs is not threatening any kind of job action. XJT is at least 2-5 years from BK regardless. Scope was the centerpiece of Contract 2004, we're paid less because we wanted scope. All of a sudden we should just roll over and concede contract language that was earned by sacrificing wages for 6 years? Anything else is a job action? I don't follow.
I think many of us, including myself, expect the deal to go through....that doesn't mean we're not playing with a full stack of chips and shouldn't play them. The SKW purchase falling through would just be status quo, nobody is threatening a group walkout after that, some may quit...but they have a right to do that. "Watching the company burn" is something we've already been doing for 2 years. Some are just stating they'll take their chances with the same if this doesn't work out.