johnso29

For those that are interpreting T.O.'s latest letter as a scope relief, please, take all the energy you are wasting here blabbering and write your Rep. All this assumption is ridiculous. Quit wasting your energy here, and voice it to someone who can pass it on to our Negotiating Committee.

Bucking Bar

Johnson,

Good post. Most of us have. If anyone hasn't follow his advice.

My Reps tell me people cut and paste from my posts, if that explains why the effort is made.

johnso29

And please don't think I'm discounting the importance of discussion, but right now we are runnning in circles. There are a lot of smart people on this forum, but we don't have anything solid right now. Lets keep hammering our Reps, instead of each other.

johnso29

Per diem and over guarantee pay always come on the 15th check. Also, I'll have to check the contract, but if you convert next month and the paycheck on the 30th is your advance for NEXT month, that may be why you're seeing the lower amount.

Columbia

What could this possibly mean?

Timbo

First off, if the Negotiating Team has been sequesterd, how do YOU know they haven't yet discussed Scope and Pay?

Second, we need to be calling our Reps NOW, because when the Negotiating Team brings it to them for a Vote, they need to shoot it down at that level. Once the MEC ratifies a T/A, then sends it on to us, it's too late. There are far too many sheeple who will vote Yes to what ever the MEC has ratified, and the excuse they always use is, "Well, they know more than I do, (because I was too lazy to stay informed and involved, or even show up, to a LEC meeting, or...etc.) and who am I to contradict them?

I have been hearing these same lame excuses ever since we got membership ratification in POS 1996.

We need to encourage everyone we fly with to call their LEC Reps. NOW, and tell them there is NO WAY we will allow MORE, and/or bigger, RJ's on the property, unless they are flown by Delta Pilots, on one list, on one contract.

Once the MEC ratifies it, it's over.

I'm calling my rep today, how about you? My first question is going to be, "WTFARK was O'Mally talking about? Spell it out for me, because he's being very vague."

Sink r8

They didn't feel loved as children, and only money fills the hole in their soul.

Ball Breaker

First read--1 conclusion:

Bend over boys and girls, here it comes!

If the company wants more 76 seaters, we can fly them right here at mainline!

forgot to bid

Ahh... if you had only put an A before each Hole.

Then you could've said, we've got a lot of a holes around here.

capncrunch

What you are saying is very reasonable and stands as a good backdrop. It is also reasonable that people feel ALPA is going to mess this up. Their track record is far from stellar and their poor historical performance has created reasonable expectations for continued mediocrity. To back up their frustrations, we hear the insiders managing expectations and slow playing in a time when the company is profitable and we should be expecting the best. If this is not the time to get a contract that is positive in every single category, then there will never be a right time.