Originally Posted by
sailingfun
It was forced on us by circumstances and the 1113 process.
You mean the threat, which has never been carried out much less carried out and upheld in their favor, to use the 1113 process to gut scope.
Outsourcing was given up out of fear in bad times and out of greed in good times. And there was plenty of scope given up in the good times as well, of course, scope recapture in good times that was never attempted as the focus was always on "so and so plus" CBA's even and especially at the expense of scope.
Even if the 1113 excuse was 100% valid, which it isn't, it would be cancelled out and then some by the numerous "restoration" and "taking it back" and "summer of love" and "parity plus" and "choke the golden goose" contracts that passed by sizable margins in good times at all the legacy airlines. Outsourcing has now reached critical mass. Its time to start getting it back or there will be no lasting gains from our C12K or any other contract if all we are left with is fighting over the scraps we left ourselves while such a massive portion of our flying is being perpetually shopped to the lowest bidder.