8vATE
Cruel, Nice, Whatever
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- Feb 24, 2002
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They enter into long term contracts with Airbus and the Port Authority. Does that hinder their abilitity to be flexible too? Why should a 3-5 year contract with the pilots be any different? Nobody else JetBlue deals with operates without a written binding agreement. Why should employees be any different?
No CBA is iron clad. The "differing" interpetations begin when the ink is barely dry.
Then you have Force Majuer and CH 11 to also break your CBA.
For the record (and despite Bavarian's insistence that all who differ from him are nuts), I am not against a union per se. Having actually been ALPA for 13+ years at regional, major cargo and major pax airlines, I can say with experience that what we have, while far from perfect, is worth a few more years of patience to have leadership put their plans in place.
Everyone seems to be quick to dismiss the spotty measured improvements that have taken place under unprecedented financial and energy turmoil.
And what's the no furlough worth to you? Oh, you don't care since you're not on the bottom?
A union is NOT going to be the one and all solution that many think it will be.
I'm willing to give them two years to make the improvements in medical, retirement and compensation that need to happen.
Everyone is free to make their choice. But these guys that beat their chests and spay their clam sauce breath in my face... GIVE IT A REST.