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Originally Posted by Temocil27
Honest question— what does the company have to lose by prolonging negotiations indefinitely? Zero. I hated TA1 and voted NO within seconds of reading it. However, it makes no sense to clean house and lose all that precious time. We’re not going to be getting any significant money from the company folks. All the flights are being flown, people still volunteering to help out, overall volume is down, and we’re overstaffed. Waiting years will do nothing but lose us money.
You state honest question and then you answer your own question? TA1 wasn't the problem it was the result. The people who negotiated it presented it defended and high pressure sold it are. Was the last MEC a bunch of idiots with no sense? That's not a rhetorical question? They were given guidence by their negotiator and they signed off. The very same thing is happening now. All the leadership is coalecing around an outcome and when the result is produced its gonna get cosigned. Believing anything else is letting hope override your lived expereince. That same guy is gonna come with slides about declining volumes and staffing levels. Hell you yourself are already determining what the limitations of what we can expect based upon current conditions that are most likely temporary. We need to play our hand and they need to play theirs. Not a day goes by when another FDX pilot doesn't sit around prognosticating about things for which they have no control and even less understanding.
Any gains achieved are gonna come at a cost. Thats what this union and many of its members don't want to accept. Negotiation is a blood sport not a knitting circle. Nearly a decade here and all ive seen was pilots who thought they were so clever and smooth give away stuff we like to get stuff we might like better.