New NWA Pilot Contract Proposal? This Can't Be Real!!!!!!!!!!!

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Nothing would make me prouder right now than to see some picketing going on at all the nations airports. Where's our leadership????

This has absolutely got to end. Oil or no oil.

 

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Nah, half of what United wanted in their bankruptcy process never happened with the pilots. They got a lot, but not everything. A full strike, which can heppen even in bankruptcy, would allow a Chap 7. Management wouldn't get everything in order to get nothing (a chap 7).


Bye Bye--General Lee

Hi General Lee,

Agree.

The way I understand it is that even in bankruptcy, the unions have some negotiating power. The BK judge can't cherry pick a contract. If they abrogate a contract they have to get rid of the whole contract, then impose one that at least has some semblance to the current industry standard. What NW mgmt is asking for is worse than what UAL got in bankruptcy (they negotiated, under pressure of course.)

Also, having a contract abrogated means that once an airline exits bankruptcy, the workers have a right to strike immediately, because they do not have a negotiated settlement. This is,of course, very undesirable and makes it very difficult for the company to aquire the financing it requires to exit bankruptcy. So in, or out, of bankruptcy a negotiated contract is better for everyone.

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