http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/4548899.html

No details on the terms, but this has got to be better than the company just having its way. The rank and file have until March 4 to vote.

 

Congrats....

 

man, it always has to come down to the wire.

 

Airline managements have learned how to get almost everything they want without the dangerous "press-to-test" of imposing a contract and fighting a strike in Federal court. Just get a compliant BK judge to SAY you can do it, (even though another court would have the last word), make a token reduction in your demands, and you win.

The sad thing is that, given the pro-management bias in our court system, Denke was probably correct.

 

VOTE IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'd like to see what it says before forming an opinion, but you're probably right.

 

I've got a projected 50 million reasons to vote it down before I even see one sentence.

 

So go ahead and vote it down and just have the company's terms implemented. Why?

 

Assuming (always a fun adventure) the TA is for a period of 4 years then add a few on top of that for negotiating a new contract. If we get imposed upon (probably for more $$$ than this TA...again an assumption), we are in Section 6 negotiations upon exit from BK. I would assume (there's that ugly word again), that the company would drag those out longer than "the norm".

Spite (never a good/sound reason to vote upon)

And because I have already worked for Mesa once and do not want to go down that road again, even if my paycheck says Comair. The Mesa mentality is here.

I know that this is a TON of assumptions and what if's. This is just my position as a PO'd FO. They have continualy lied and my need to work under an agreed upon contract very low right now. Actually, I should say that there are very few things I would actually vote for right now...a payraise would be one.

 

So your saying that this TA may have a bigger paycut than the imposed terms?