Morning Wood
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- Dec 16, 2001
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So tell me what you think having a union on property is doing to prevent "flexibility". If the company comes to the union as equals and respect, then there is no loss of flexibility at all. If management decides to treat the union
as an adversary, then there will be problems. But that happens whether there is a union or not. The way I read your post it sounds like the flexibility that they need is payrates, and that is just not the case.
I'll give you two examples. Delta's contract about 10 years ago prohibited reflowing of crews in their own domicile. United Shuttle crews had provisions limiting and/or prohibiting airplane swaps on the last day of their trip. How is that for flexibility? We have people now running around thinking that as soon as ALPA is on the property that airplane swaps will magically go away. If that isn't a perfect example of shortsightedness and "what can ALPA do for me", then I don't know what is.