Originally Posted by Flyguppy
The Continental MEC has dug their heels in and refused to allow any form of compensation proposal to be passed to the company unless it is their proposal. We assure you that the UAL MEC has made good-faith gestures to the CAL MEC to keep the process moving toward what will benefit, to the maximum extent, our collective pilot groups.
OK, I am really trying to understand all this and especially this portion.
According to our MEC conference call a few weeks ago, the JNC--read that again that is THE JOINT NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE COMPRISED OF NEGOTIATORS FROM BOTH PILOT GROUPS--drafted a compensation proposal section. That means they created the proposal TOGETHER. This proposal was presented to the MECs for their consideration, review and approval for presentation to airline management. The CAL MEC approved this compensation proposal and we are now waiting on the UAL MEC to approve the proposal as developed by the JOINT NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE in order to present it to management. How is this the CAL MEC delaying anything?
While the tactics of some of the CAL MEC members may be questioned, to suggest that our MEC is solely to blame for the lack of progress is insulting. If the UAL MEC has a problem with the JNC compensation proposal, maybe they should be taking their JNC members to task for serious explanations if it didn't meet the UAL MEC's wishes. Don't we have a JNC for a reason?
Even our MEC members on that conference call stated that the UAL MEC was trying to use tactics in negotiations to further their pilots over ours. Guess what? Both sides are probably right and it is to be expected as each side looks out for their pilots. So the truth of the matter is that the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle of both the CAL MEC's version of things and the UAL MEC's version of things.
I want both sides to hammer this issue out. Make a super-duper, big humped wide body pay category for all I care. I am too junior to expect to ever see that plane anyway as most CAL pilots feel.