Originally Posted by
FDXLAG
Hows this Andy: the Mec decided that 3% was enough to sell this LOA that they previously decided could not stand alone (in other words buy votes). That 3% will give us till March 2012 to decide what work rules will cost us. If we want we can take another 3% to get us till March 2013. In the meantime the MEC has scheduled numerous roadshows and big videos to tell us its a bridge and we will worry about 4A2b and accepted fares sometime in the future. But it is not as hard as sell as the last time.
There is a very fine line in this business if "selling", so far they have made it clear that ALPA is providing every opportunity for people to get honest, straight forward answers. This includes opinions, it has too, we do not have the video or transcript of what they see.
The selling part, to me, would be what we saw last time. "if you don't take this deal, Irish pilots will be taking our flights. or other idle threats" I have not seen any ALPA official types claiming the world will come to an end if you do not vote this in. If they were to "undersell" it that would be a problem too, not providing people with enough info or opportunity is just as bad (actually worse) than too much. Seems like the MEC is very aware of the concerns on the line. I appreciate their efforts to provide the ying and the yang opinions as well.