Fair enough. And I agree that these "anonymous" message boards allow the worst of us to come out sometimes. Say things we'd never say in person, and maybe not even really believe but emotions are high right now, no doubt about it. Personal attacks are dumb. Categorizing people are dumb (Guilty). I'm sure I'd enjoy sitting down and having beers with each and every one of you. Except you Joe Payne. I doubt I'd like you very much.

 

Not anonymous for all of us.

 

True. Even more so on BPs. anonymous or illusion of anonymity. Same thing.

 

Some do some don’t
Hell I wouldn’t like to have beers with me either.

 

Just your decision to support a substandard TA, nothing more.


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Just so we are clear, like it or not this is actually our first contract. First one, we can use tricky language about how we've been negotiating for 18 years and all that.....but simple reality is this is our first contract. A contract that not only had to be bargained from zero, but also had to address many pitfalls and schemes utilized by this company to propagate more schemes that were used to facilitate wage suppression, lack of QOL, open-architecture of health care plans to change at will, language that the intent was 100% owned by the company. I could go on and on.


In this "POS" TA, we have finally secured language that the intent is shared, bargained and precisely noted in order to combat this company when they decide, and they will, to purposely break the rules.
We have finally obtained pay rates within 2% of Southwest, 14% was the closest we have ever been before. With the VEBA and the 16% in 2021 we are 1.4% from Southwest.
ADG
INT override and per diem
Contractual guard rails on a health care plan that is largely mirrored by the industry, and the country for that matter.
VEBA, which SWA and DAL are already discussing how to get included to protect 415(c) spill money to produce more tax-free dollars.
SCOPE that is top of the industry, DAL and UAL told us to our faces we would never prohibit CPA.
Maintaining night override, 30% of all pairings trigger this, only other airline is SWA and theirs is half.
Industry leading pairing footprint pay protections.,....by a long shot!
RSV rules that are top of the industry.
Pairing construction rules unseen in the industry.
Hours of service rules that are better than industry standard, and we don't have anything today for 'day-of-ops' protections.



We absolutely know the 2% is shy of what it should be compared to the industry.
We absolutely HATE the cliff, but you show me where any airline has bargained for a better PS formula while not in concessions or a JCBA. AA is your only example and it's the same as our junk PS.


I get it, there are things that I wanted....and bad. It's not perfect, but I would love to have a conversation with anyone that can explain to me how this is such a POS and we are somehow hurting the industry. You are off your freakin rocker to think that.

 

So what if it's our first contract? This isn't the maiden voyage of the USS Nautilus or the first time getting to the moon.

Airline contracts are not complex. This is a false argument. We are doing nothing that hasn't been done hundreds of times before. Our current TA was written with Crayola crayons with the amount of amateur level language it contains. Just wait till BJ gets us in years long grievances because of all the legal loopholes in it. This is why I am critical of BJ pilots. They are far too eager to accept ANY contract because many have literally never read a contract nor written one. As a result, they have no idea what a bad contract is. People are being misled by the one sided ALPA sales shows. This could be a drag and drop contract with hundreds of examples to copy from, plus millions of contracts found in the rest of corporate America. The only argument of the Yes voters is "it's better than what we had before", which is a form of defeatism through complacency. The complacency is the lack of will to educate oneself on what proper contracts ought to be like, in order to discriminate against bad ones like TA 1. TA 1 contains dangerous language in it. Look no further than BJs email today vs. ALPAs email today about duty time. Study carefully JBs legal deception. Expect this kind of thing with a contract because unlike a PEA, a contract is under contract law. Every word matters. This isnt some smoke and mirrors PEA where they can rewrite it whenever they want. There is a huge, insurmountable cost to getting it wrong, and TA1 has it wrong.

The only ones "off their rocker" are the ones who haven't educated themselves on contracts in general (sorry, ALPA propaganda is nowhere near enough knowledge). Have you even bothered to ask why this TA contains an arbitration clause? Are you under the impression that it is required?

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How about you fill us in the last time ALPA had a carrier that bargained a new contract from zero. Think really hard and get back to us.


After that please educate me on your vast contract knowledge, because I just spent 3.5 years educating myself. By your reference to "drag and drop" and then stating JB's legal deception are your asserting that this process should have been easy?



You obviously know zero on how any of this works, and that's ok. Keep screaming nonsense from the roof tops and knock yourself out. Every airline has a grievance committee, every airline has a crooked corporate culture that will try and exploit everything to their advantage. And every airline has guys like you hiding behind screen names acting like they know so much when it is very apparent they know very little. Crayola crayons and "airline contracts are not complex" gave you away.

 

I did vote yes for the TA

 

Correction

I meant to say I didn’t vote yes for the TA