New Alaska Negotiations Thread

[ReverseSensing]

Whoever-owns-Frank-Lorenzo's-screen-name for ALPA President! (And Teamsters President, for that matter.)

Who'd have thought that amidst all the dripping sarcasm, we'd have a real prophet of "taking in back" on our hands.

 

[turbodriver]

Union says they canceled 18 furloughs. So what the he!!, is it 18 or just the 14 that covers the new bid?

 

[Ih8AFYesmen]

Silence is deafening; any rumors regarding the negotiations?

 

[Going2Baja]

I hear the TA is C L O S E......the cash better be there as well as language for the reserves.

On another note: MEC struck a deal w/ the CO to cancel 18 furloughs. The pilots not being furloughed are going to remain in their current position regardless of seniority until the April bid comes out Mar 13th. Some pilots being forced out of base out of seniority.....Any comments Lorenzo? A lot of ticked off pilots here...I REALLY hope the TA is worth it!

Baja.

 

[becket]

..I REALLY hope the TA is worth it!

Baja.

Only if you vote the 1st one down.

 

[AZFr8tPilot]

I hear the TA is C L O S E......the cash better be there as well as language for the reserves.

On another note: MEC struck a deal w/ the CO to cancel 18 furloughs. The pilots not being furloughed are going to remain in their current position regardless of seniority until the April bid comes out Mar 13th. Some pilots being forced out of base out of seniority.....Any comments Lorenzo? A lot of ticked off pilots here...I REALLY hope the TA is worth it!

Baja.

Up to 19 furloughs canceled....two are going to take reduced bid block reserve lines.

 

[Going2Baja]

Only if you vote the 1st one down.

That's a given!

Baja.

 

[CesnaCaptn]

so what are the proposed rates? Did I miss it somewhere in this thread? Are you guys unwilling to discuss them for some reason? Hopefully you get a considerable raise. This fighting over the scraps from mgt's table BS has got to stop someday...

As far as I can tell, we're asking for captains to get a raise slightly ahead of inflation. For F/Os we're asking for 9% initially, plus cola.

On the one hand, what we're asking for is embarrassing. On the other hand, we have two companies up our a$$ on the west coast that pay their captains less than half our pre-Kasher rate.

 

[Ty Webb]

like flying with some koolaid drinking old farts who won't think twice about putting their young under the bus. I'm so tired of hearing these guys say, "This is it for me. I can't make what I'm making here elsewhere. You are young enough to get a job somewhere else and start over, but I can't just pick up and do that". Fortunately, they are the minority but they are out there. They've been bent over so many times that their a$$es are numb.

I thought this thread was about Alaska, not AirTran

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

I hear the TA is C L O S E......the cash better be there as well as language for the reserves.

On another note: MEC struck a deal w/ the CO to cancel 18 furloughs. The pilots not being furloughed are going to remain in their current position regardless of seniority until the April bid comes out Mar 13th. Some pilots being forced out of base out of seniority.....Any comments Lorenzo? A lot of ticked off pilots here...I REALLY hope the TA is worth it!

Baja.

I think that's why they're not fighting for the bottom guys right now. They're too busy playing nice for the mediator to put up a fuss about the furloughees.