Originally Posted by
iceman49
Clamp, the NMB is comprised of 3 political appointees, only 2 of which can be from the same party. Since the latest appointee was was put in place by the current administration in 2009, its safe to say that the previous members were appointed by the past administration...which was not exactly labor friendly...has your former regional asked for a release lately?
The negotiations were put on ice by the NMB who were displeased that we were negotiating outside the NMB (though as directed by them). A few days after being put on ice, our airline purchased Mesaba from Delta with financing from Delta...
Bad faith bargaining... you betcha! NMB ever going to release that pilot group.... not a chance in heck.
What got us put on ice was largely the company coming to the table the last day and stating they wanted to increase our insurance premiums over 400% to add 1% to the 13-year plus seniority 401(k)s....