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You sir are either dumb or clueless. Let me explain this to you.
In order to deviate from a contract a LOA must be signed. Any deviation without a LOA can be detrimental to the contract. If a deviation precedent has been allowed the company would continue to violate the contract and the union would have no recourse.
Had the union agreed to pay protect us like the company wanted to, an LOA would have been created. Matt and company never let it get to that. This is a fact!
Kenn told a whopper on his conference call. He said the 401k was negotiated away by the union. The truth is, it was taken away unilaterally by the company while we were at-will, over a year before the CBA was ratified.
Another half truth. You may not have had a ratified CBA, but you were represented by a union. If memory serves me correctly it took almost 4 years from voting in union representation until the first CBA was ratified.
I have worked under several unions in the 121 world. They were great at promoting safety and helping with aeromedical issues. The rest of the stuff was mainly a bunch of pilots who wanted to get paid to constantly find ways to screw the company. They also dud a great job at using MY dues money to promote a lot of political agendas that I was totally against.
Unions are a business. They make money by scaring pilots into believing that the union can protect them no matter what happens. When things do happen you find out the union is willing to let its union members get fired as long as it doesn't hurt the bigger union.
The Teamsters could give 2 craps about 400 pilots in a part of an industry they don't understand or care about. Look at which pilot groups they represent. I don't see many that pilots aspire to retire from.
My hope us that after the dust settles that we (Flex and Flight Options) will be stronger financially and our careers will gave benefited. Thus doesn't have to come at the expense of the company we work for. It us actually possible for employees and the company to win.
I am sure the 5-10 super union Flight Options pilots will bash he and tell me that I just don't know what we are in for. Instead if lobbing fear grenades why don't we try to better thus whole place.
Let the bashing begin in 3.....2......1
Furloughed pilots don't get to vote. They are not active members. We at Flex outnumber the Flight Options group that gets to vote.
Don't let the few union leaders on here scare you. The Flight Options pilot group us very divided. If KR offers something close to our pay to get rid of 1108 I think the union would be very suprised how many if their members jump ship.