ASA Negotiations grind to a halt (again)! ASA management out of touch with reality!

[embdrvr]

An RJ will taxi awfully slow at idle plus 2.8% N1. Sorry if I'm backing things up - but since the POH says to taxi no faster than 15 kts, and we don't have any way to determine speed on the ground below 40, I'm just being safe and complying with the POH. Now if the sell-outs would stop taxiing so fast! Getting overblock - I'll get a pay-raise somehow.

Can't you look at your groundspeed readout on the FMS?
15 seems awfully fast. Maybe you should try 10. After all 15 is the top limit and nothign says you need to be operating at redline.

 

[VeeOne]

So what's the latest on Comair? End of the month?

I think they have an extension until the end of Feb..........I'm not 100% sure though.

 

[wmuflyguy]

I think they have an extension until the end of Feb..........I'm not 100% sure though.

Feb 2nd

 

[Oakum_Boy]

Isn't this turd getting old and white. I'm ready for a strike.

 

[VeeOne]

Isn't this turd getting old and white. I'm ready for a strike.

A strike isn't going to be the ultimate solution everyone is cracking it up to be- it simply opens up a different set of obstacles.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

No but what are we to do, roll over and take like Mesa? I don't think so because the next thing you know we'll be sharing rooms and sporting plywood.

 

[~~~^~~~]

A strike isn't going to be the ultimate solution everyone is cracking it up to be- it simply opens up a different set of obstacles.

Maybe "final solution" would be the right phrase.

 

[VeeOne]

No but what are we to do, roll over and take like Mesa? I don't think so because the next thing you know we'll be sharing rooms and sporting plywood.

Now that's funny! However, I don't think we need to worry about that- we're WAY ahead of Mesa and what they will probably get on their next T/A. Ornstein will show his @$$ again to keep his cost down at ANY cost- unfortunately.

Oakum- I'm not advocating rolling over by any stretch. However, I am saying that a strike would probably be more expensive to us than the gain we would achieve. Heck- health insurance is 350$ per person per month without having any health issues prior. Not to mention the lost wages and strike pay doesn't kick in for three or four months- and that's only if the rest of ALPA membership feels it's appropriate and worth it. How many mainliners thing the ASA battle is worth a hoot. Most don't even know we're in negotiations.

 

[~~~^~~~]

I vote for a simultaneous strike at ASA and Comair.

You have my strong YES vote. If something crazy like that ever got rolling, I would stand up and take whatever punishment came our way. We need a national referendum on the Railway Labor Act. A suspension of service would bring the issue front and center.

Further, my strike issue, SCOPE, is something that is pretty easily explained in a national forum. After all, why should employees be bound to service at a Company who refuses to be bound to its employees?

It is basic fairness and I think the public would be sympathetic.

 

[79%N1]

I agree with fins. Scope is my number 1 remaining issue. We have the scheduling/reserve/ and many of our QOL shortcomings addressed in TA'd sections. I can't see 700 pay coming up. 200 pay needs to match Skywest & Comair, and we need the Skywest bonus plan. I also don't see full retro as a possibility. But, Scope has got to be addressed, and what the Co. is proposing is laughable at best.