Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
You don't have any leverage, your union is ready to drop the one list anyway, they realize that this is the only viable solution. It is HIGHLY unlikely that you would get any guarantee of "future growth" whatever growth there could ever be left after the aircraft Skywest is about to acquire in the next month or so. Best you can hope for is something like ASA has that lets you keep what you currently have and not lose anything in an aircraft transfer.
Your management has given us leverage. Not only did they spell out all the benefits and reasons they want to buy us to the whole investment community, they told us they were willing to address our whipsaw, transfer of aircraft, staffing etc.
Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
Nothing says they even need to talk with you, from what I understand it is a take it or leave it deal. You say no they walk away and then wait a few months and buy the scraps in a chapter 7 sale. Either way I don't care, skywest staying independent is more important than anything else out there.
I think it’s funny that 2 weeks ago you guys were saying the one list will happen no matter what but now you've moved the goal posts and finally have come to terms with that fact that one list will not happen. What will the story be next month?
This is all happening exactly like I thought it would.
It certainly is a take it or leave it deal. They one list or or walk away from the deal. If it was really as easy as waiting until we go bk, they certainly would have done that at best. It's clear that skw sees great benefit in XJT right now. And there are others that don't have a problem with our contract as is that will also see the same benefits skw laid out for all during the conference call.
It's skw who has moved their goal post. They announced to the whole world that hey are buying XJT, had talked to all the labor groups and that they were all on board with making this transaction happen the way they envision it. BR even answered a question on what is different now then two years ago and he said that two years ago there were "things" that were out of their control. Now when they actually did talk to our union they tell us that they will walk away before one listing us.
In any case, I've said from the beggining that I rather stay independent and take the risk of being bought by someone else then to be part of this whipsaw.