If you know a local MEM guy, sometimes a Flex/LCA, who's calendar looks like they often get draft the last and first week of every month, contact them. Some of them calendar block. This makes it easier to I.D. them.

Ask them if getting draft during the years of negotiations has been enough to let them stop until we get a good TA.

We all know who these guys are. If you don't, find out. These are the guys that management is referring to when they say they get good feedback on things. The guys management thinks reflect the true mood and capability of the membership. Scheduling caters to these guys, big time.

How do you think management comes up with crackpot ideas like replacing tripmanager with a half baked program? It's these guys who could care less about how the deviation program works and management knows it. They count on it.

If you don't fight now, you'll never do it.

 

I can bring some cookies and a hat.






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Put me down for a dozen cupcakes.

 

I must have dreamed we voted on extending our last real contract another year with an option for year 2

 

Perhaps you missed my sarcasm.

Indeed, we did consumate a new CBA, and we restarted the clock with the NMB.

At the same time, your MEC was telling you that our negotiations timeline would not change. This "Interim CBA" would not delay achieving the "real" CBA. The NMB would treat us as if we had been in negotiations the entire time, should we need to seek their assistance. In fact, the "Interim Talks" would be so revolutionary and productive that reopening RLA Section 6 negotiations would be a mere formality, as we would be able to pull our TAs off the shelf and consumate a deal in no time at all.

Some of us saw the folly of that path, and found ourselves looking in from the outside.


Unfortunately, being able to say, "We told you so" offers little comfort.






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Standby, new lanyards are on the way.

39 months? Where did that come from?






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This thread got so long in such a short amount of time I was sure that I got my 3% and that the contract was ready to ink.

Guess the 3% improvement in my lifestyle (minus the cost of living of course) will just have to wait.

 

Gunter,

Wear your new lanyard to my bake sale and informational picketing event!!

In the meantime, I'm going to file for mediation with the NMB. I believe that every day we wait to file is another day we'll wait for a contract.

I'm doing everything I can. Please join me.

 

Just read the follow on chairman's message. Stratton just said as plainly as legally possible, it's time. Put all the other horse crap in fighting behind, it's time. No excuses about the past, it's time. We want a contract? Now's the time.

 

Yeah. Which doesn't really mean a whole lot. Sounds kind of like an Obama line in the sand.
One thing I DO know, it is time for a new lanyard.