Any news from Washington from ASA/alpa?

[ohplease!]

Which foursome is ahead and by how many strokes? Have they made the turn to the back nine yet? What time is the reservation at Ruth's Chris tonight? and are they meeting early for drinks at the bar?

Just curious...

 

[John Pennekamp]

Which foursome is ahead and by how many strokes? Have they made the turn to the back nine yet? What time is the reservation at Ruth's Chris tonight? and are they meeting early for drinks at the bar?

Just curious...

They had an awesome catered lunch brought in and were brought up to speed on the departure of Gary Gross, plus all the other hot gossip from the GO.

 

[ohplease!]

ahh, good. Nice to see things are moving well.

 

[John Pennekamp]

And then Prater showed up with the bottle of Glenlivet and the Cohibas. After that they were bushed and decided to adjourn to the lounge and finish up tomorrow.

 

[JoeMerchant]

"Both sides remain cautiously optimistic"

 

[scott hall]

The MEC caved and gave us everything we wanted. Woohoo! Can you spell P-B-S? No retro. No change in scope. Oh happy day. We are competitive.

Now we can get back to the business of the airline and grow.

 

[jeroom]

For a moment I thought you were serious, but then I realized that it was you SCOTT....!! What a funny bunny!!

 

[GearUpLightsIn]

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I don't know the outcome of today's meeting, but I hear the head clown

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put war paint on everyone before the session began.

 

[BIGGOAT]

There is no way there could be any news yet b/c tee time, or was it tea time, was at noon.


Goat

 

[Flyer1015]

What time is the reservation at Ruth's Chris tonight?

Oh man they're eating at Ruth's Chris tonight? They have some real good food up there!

 

[FUZZO]

Good luck guys i hope for the best for you, but between both groups(management and the Union) there is not chance anything will light a fire under them to get moving. Hopefully a mediator or an arbitrator will step in and end this stupid dance.

 

[Copydat]

I heard that they have decided to reconvene in September. Something about personal matters that the mediator needs to attend to.

 

[79%N1]

I can't wait for the email late tonight that says the company came unprepared, asked for a caucus until lunch and then came back with a proposal that didn't move from their last table position! Then, tomorrow, the mediator will rule that since no progress was made, he will take some time to decide on a future course of action. Yawn.

 

[SPDBRD747400]

More dates scheduled for '08....please we have waited almost 5 years I don't think we will see anything new happen...what a joke!

 

["GO AROUND"]

We havn't gotten anything yet, we might as well get a record for the longest negotiations that noone will ever beat. (TIC)

 

[JoeMerchant]

We havn't gotten anything yet, we might as well get a record for the longest negotiations that noone will ever beat. (TIC)

Still have over a year to go to get that record.... Great Lakes went 6 years.....

 

[79%N1]

Don't worry...........we'll get there! Guaranteed! They need the time to shrink us and replace us.

 

[JoeMerchant]

Don't worry...........we'll get there! Guaranteed! They need the time to shrink us and replace us.

That won't happen.... we have ALPA to protect us.....

 

[Oakum_Boy]

We'll beat our own record, that is for sure.

 

[vtech]

Imagine the excitement among the SkyWest pilot group at the prospect of becoming represented by ALPA in light of the blazing pace of the negotiations at ASA!