After the first TA was rejected the NMB expressed an interest in resolving the issues quickly. The PCL MEC Chairman delayed so the MEC could figure out what they want. The NMB humored them and went with it. Nine months later he meets with an NMB board member and the Director of Mediation and pulls this stunt of 'take it or leave it' and refuses to negotiate. He refused to even listen to the ALPA lawyers. This is from a Chairman that intentionally torpedoed the first TA. He decieved the NMB, ALPA's staff and PNCL management into thinking he supported it and then BOO'ed it down. Everyone knows what happened now.
The NMB has made it clear they will not do business with someone or an organization that doesn't keep it's word. ALPA is not going to say it publicly but they won't either. The Pinnacle MEC has damaged ALPA's stature with the NMB. Essentially, both the NMB and ALPA have washed their hands of the Pinnacle pilots. They have much bigger and more pressing problems to deal with and limited resoureces. They aren't going to waste their time with a bunch of kids they can't trust. When the Pinnacle pilots show up with new leadership that demonstrates they can be trusted the NMB might help them. In the mean time they will not have any support from anywhere. They are on their own.
Then again, with todays announcement it won't matter. The Pinnacle pilots don't need to 'grow a pair', they just need to grow up. All the crew room smack talk and message board beat downs will never accomplish anything. And that is all the Pinnacle MEC has now. In the coming whipsaw with Mesaba they will be taught by the adults how business relationships work. It will be a harsh lesson.
The NMB has made it clear they will not do business with someone or an organization that doesn't keep it's word. ALPA is not going to say it publicly but they won't either. The Pinnacle MEC has damaged ALPA's stature with the NMB. Essentially, both the NMB and ALPA have washed their hands of the Pinnacle pilots. They have much bigger and more pressing problems to deal with and limited resoureces. They aren't going to waste their time with a bunch of kids they can't trust. When the Pinnacle pilots show up with new leadership that demonstrates they can be trusted the NMB might help them. In the mean time they will not have any support from anywhere. They are on their own.
Then again, with todays announcement it won't matter. The Pinnacle pilots don't need to 'grow a pair', they just need to grow up. All the crew room smack talk and message board beat downs will never accomplish anything. And that is all the Pinnacle MEC has now. In the coming whipsaw with Mesaba they will be taught by the adults how business relationships work. It will be a harsh lesson.