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03-30-2015 | 07:05 PM
#2281
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The status quo strike is legal, justified, well within our rights, and completely separate from an NMB release. I understand that. But the NMB is not a computer program. It's made up of humans, and humans form opinions even if they shouldn't. Humans also take things personally and hold grudges when they shouldn't.
I don't know what the mediators will think of a status quo strike... Like I already said, maybe they won't care, they shouldn't. Maybe they'll respect us for it and be more likely to release us. But if there's even a 1 in a million chance that a status quo strike could anger them and possibly delay a release by even a week, I will gladly take a few more weeks of PBS to be able walk the line for a contract ASAP!
I don't know what the mediators will think of a status quo strike... Like I already said, maybe they won't care, they shouldn't. Maybe they'll respect us for it and be more likely to release us. But if there's even a 1 in a million chance that a status quo strike could anger them and possibly delay a release by even a week, I will gladly take a few more weeks of PBS to be able walk the line for a contract ASAP!
03-30-2015 | 07:12 PM
#2282
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We have offered olive branch after olive branch and management has broken them over their knee and chucked them back in our faces. The waiting is over. If you give them another month, there will always be an excuse to wait ANOTHER month after that. If anything, this strike will expose management to the NMB for the con artists they are. They laugh at the federal court just like they laugh at us. They don't think we have the wherewithal to accomplish a strike. Waiting even longer just proves them right.
03-30-2015 | 07:41 PM
#2283
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If we can't hold them to honoring our current rules, what makes you think they'll honor our contract? They need to know we will hold them accountable and the time in NOW.
03-30-2015 | 07:41 PM
#2284
Line Holder
Joined: Jan 2009
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We have offered olive branch after olive branch and management has broken them over their knee and chucked them back in our faces. The waiting is over. If you give them another month, there will always be an excuse to wait ANOTHER month after that. If anything, this strike will expose management to the NMB for the con artists they are. They laugh at the federal court just like they laugh at us. They don't think we have the wherewithal to accomplish a strike. Waiting even longer just proves them right.
Last edited by davidsthubbins; 03-30-2015 at 07:53 PM.
03-30-2015 | 07:45 PM
#2285
Lifer
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: MD80 CA
We have offered olive branch after olive branch and management has broken them over their knee and chucked them back in our faces. The waiting is over. If you give them another month, there will always be an excuse to wait ANOTHER month after that. If anything, this strike will expose management to the NMB for the con artists they are. They laugh at the federal court just like they laugh at us. They don't think we have the wherewithal to accomplish a strike. Waiting even longer just proves them right.
03-30-2015 | 07:54 PM
#2286
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Show them, expose them, prove it to them.... That's all I've been hearing for a month. Where's our focus? I want to strike too...for a contract!! All this passion and rage for a status quo strike....let's rage for a contract!! You're saying I want to give the company another month? NO! I'm saying give the NMB another month. They called this meeting. This could be it guys! This could be the meeting that pushes them over that edge...that makes them realize that a release is necessary. If not, and this just some stupid attempt to restart pointless negotiations...then we hit the pavement. Why risk angering even a single NMB member and possibly delaying what we all want.
03-30-2015 | 08:25 PM
#2287
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History has proven your suggestion that we continue on with a ‘Policy of Appeasement’, is bad on so many levels. Why would the nmb care about an obvious status quo violation? All we are doing is reinstating the starting line that g4 management illegally removed. Wait another month? No sir. I am grateful you are not running our union. Our focus is pretty clear; we are now enacting a legally and morally justified battle. (or about to, [Disclaimer]I am not a union official and/or union lawyer[thats for the rats.])
To which the ripple effects will be outstanding. The stock is hovering around 190 a share; lets watch it drop and see what happens to whom. No longer will mg be able to shine on the investor calls with, ‘Oh, everything is fine, there won’t be a strike anytime soon; there are no labor problems..’
To which the ripple effects will be outstanding. The stock is hovering around 190 a share; lets watch it drop and see what happens to whom. No longer will mg be able to shine on the investor calls with, ‘Oh, everything is fine, there won’t be a strike anytime soon; there are no labor problems..’
Show them, expose them, prove it to them.... That's all I've been hearing for a month. Where's our focus? I want to strike too...for a contract!! All this passion and rage for a status quo strike....let's rage for a contract!! You're saying I want to give the company another month? NO! I'm saying give the NMB another month. They called this meeting. This could be it guys! This could be the meeting that pushes them over that edge...that makes them realize that a release is necessary. If not, and this just some stupid attempt to restart pointless negotiations...then we hit the pavement. Why risk angering even a single NMB member and possibly delaying a release.
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03-30-2015 | 08:40 PM
#2288
Line Holder
Joined: Oct 2010
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Show them, expose them, prove it to them.... That's all I've been hearing for a month. Where's our focus? I want to strike too...for a contract!! All this passion and rage for a status quo strike....let's rage for a contract!! You're saying I want to give the company another month? NO! I'm saying give the NMB another month. They called this meeting. This could be it guys! This could be the meeting that pushes them over that edge...that makes them realize that a release is necessary. If not, and this just some stupid attempt to restart pointless negotiations...then we hit the pavement. Why risk angering even a single NMB member and possibly delaying a release.
I understand where you're coming from. However, if we don't get back the working agreement we had in place, then we will be waisting time negotiating agreements we already had in place. They are proving that they are not going to willingly give us what we already had. The position we are in now only hurts are negotiating team. We need to get back the agreements we had so that our negotiators have somewhere to start. This is why I support a possible strike.
03-30-2015 | 09:09 PM
#2289
Line Holder
Joined: Aug 2014
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From: MD80
Show them, expose them, prove it to them.... That's all I've been hearing for a month. Where's our focus? I want to strike too...for a contract!! All this passion and rage for a status quo strike....let's rage for a contract!! You're saying I want to give the company another month? NO! I'm saying give the NMB another month. They called this meeting. This could be it guys! This could be the meeting that pushes them over that edge...that makes them realize that a release is necessary. If not, and this just some stupid attempt to restart pointless negotiations...then we hit the pavement. Why risk angering even a single NMB member and possibly delaying a release.
03-30-2015 | 09:19 PM
#2290
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Some of us suffer from a little bit of battered wife syndrome. “Just give him one more chance..”
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