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Originally Posted by seafeye
Any pilot working on this "new" contract is owed a substantial amount of money. This is no different than the company saying they are going to pay us $50/HR then paying $30. It's fraud. Now if indeed the arbitrator has made a decision and made it known to the company and the MEC then we all have a right to know. People are making decisions to stay/leave PSA based on their financial needs. Making an educated decision is paramount. I wouldn't be surprised that the MEC members aren't personally allowing themselves to be sued by withholding information.
You really need to take a moment and step back and think about the bigger picture. ALPA negotiated contract 2013, and the 4-5 months that the company actually abided by were really good for the pilot group. But the moment the company engages in fraud (a point you and I agree on) stop your apparent logic is to blame ALPA? ALPA files a grievance and argues it and again you want to blame ALPA? The arbitrator requests that ALPA and the company do their best to come to their own resolution, and ALPA refuses to give any concessions, and you're still blaming ALPA? The arbitrator takes his sweet time coming to a decision and, you guessed it, ALPA is still getting the blame. Lastly, there may or may not be a ruling and you're blaming ALPA for that too.
In case you missed the memo, ALPA doesn't run the company. The only way your union (well, you're APA now, right?) has to coerce to the company to do anything it doesn't want to is the arbitration process, and as I mentioned earlier that is a legal process, and for better or worse the legal profession in this country has determined that that takes times. And yet there are some that think it's apparently a bright idea to interject yet another group of lawyers into this whole morass thinking somehow that's going to speed things up.
As certain TYS FAs might say, bless your heart.....
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I'm sure TR is a good man and that his heart is in the right place. But people make mistakes, and open communication will help prevent them.
Shutting down the forum and Facebook pages aren't going to work. This is the Information Age after all.
I am in full agreement that communication is an important thing, and I encourage all our pilots to make known their opinions and request for information. But I also know that many claim they send the Fastreads right to their spam folder too. I am also in agreement that the timing on the original forum is suspicious, but suspicions do not equal proof.
As to the FB pages, both of the ones that have been shut down were started and run by individual pilots. The company requested that the first one be shut down, ostensibly because people were posting company material. Perhaps the second one was shuttered for the same reason, but given that the admin on that one was one of our more outspoken pilots, I doubt the company or union asking him nicely was going to have any affect on his decision making.