Originally Posted by
Busboy
They certainly had time to negotiate the company's needs.
And, your argument of needing to open sections and TA them in their entirety, makes no sense. Sec. 4, was opened and 4A2b was addressed in this TA. Just not satisfactorily.
Look, we spend our dues money on polling the membership before negotiations and even more on the road-show/voting process. If all we're expected to do is rubber-stamp everything our NC puts out for us to ratify, regardless of if it meets ANY of our goals...Why bother? Let's do away with polling, ratification and for that matter, the MEC. You're right, it is a waste of time and energy.
They cut and pasted a previously negotiated TA into that section. Much different from reworking a new amendment from scratch.
I don't see how this has morphed into a win just for the company.
There are no concessions in the TA and only improvements for our pilot group. Not all the ones we want and will get, but improvements non the less.