Spirit mec, please release info on new ta!

[boomlrd]

The natives are restless. We should not have gone back to work until we saw highlights of this TA. The MEC says we met all of our goals, PARITY? I hope that is the case, but if not we will vote it down. I am getting frustrated that 3 days have passed and we have no info from the MEC on this TA or info as to when they will give us info. If the rumors are true of only 18% pay raise for FO's then that's not new pay parity! Thats less than even Allegiant! If the rumors are true that we lost option 3 on the bidding, there will be a No vote as well. If the rumors are true that we lost any overtime, ie. 150%, no vote again. If the rumors are true that signing bonus is only $7k with no retro, another NO vote! I have watched multiple airlines go through both strikes as well as getting to strike deadline and I have never seen the TA take so long to show your constituents. We followed you faithfully, we were told we may shut the airline down and were ready to close the doors for good if we could not get pay parity, well I pray we have achieved that, otherwise NO vote! I appreciate the hard work of the MEC and thank them for negotiating the best deal they could get, but now is not time to withhold information. I am tired of hearing about "what we retained" what did we gain? There should be no give backs in any section, as the MEC stated we have been operating under a concessionary contract for way too long, we had the bastards by the balls, why such a hurry to go back to work?

 

[Mike man]

...why such a hurry to go back to work?

Fat raises for the CA's and senior F/O's on the MEC...or maybe it is cushy new management jobs just like John Ferg...speak now SPA MEC or forever be remembered as the Frank Lorenzo MEC.

 

[flynryan15]

Just curious if you call your reps are they answering your calls and fielding questions? Or are you just getting the run around?

 

[flygirlqt]

So the Spirit MEC has decided to go back to work based on a TA, yet the company is completely screwing over the Flight Attendants in regards to their contractual protections with furlough recall criteria.

While ALPA should not be interfering with the Flight Attendant side of the house, it seems patently obvious Spirit management has not changed their ways whatsoever with respect to and about honoring it's contractual commitments to their employees.

I personally believe it was a foolish decision to take the lines down until a TA was ratified with the membership. The purpose of a strike it to get a ratified contract, not an agreement for a TA.

 

[Caveman]

I personally believe it was a foolish decision to take the lines down until a TA was ratified with the membership. The purpose of a strike it to get a ratified contract, not an agreement for a TA.

I agree. Don't fumble the ball before you cross the goal line.

 

[geardown]

The FA's , on their own accord, should have negaotiated/required a pay raise just to return to work, short of the contractual 2+ week requirement. I don't understand why they have not done this. Never let an opprotunity go to waste when your dealing with a SCUM BAG management.

 

[WayBack]

Never let an opprotunity go to waste when your dealing with a SCUM BAG management.

How about your SCUM BAD MEC reps who told you to get back to work with no TA on the table!?

 

[critterair2]

road shows may end up being a lynch mob..........It hope its better than what we are hearing......I will pass judgement then instead of now...lets use our heads to vote on this thing, not our emotions. If you don't believe in your heart its a good deal then vote no. Lets wait thou until we see it

 

[dispatchguy]

Spirit Air Management = ******************************bags.

When they signed the TA with the dispatchers, when the rough draft was being finalized, management changed whole sections to get what they wanted without negotiations.

I wouldnt trust NK management as far as I can hock one up....

 

[flygirlqt]

Spirit Air Management = ******************************bags.

When they signed the TA with the dispatchers, when the rough draft was being finalized, management changed whole sections to get what they wanted without negotiations.

I wouldnt trust NK management as far as I can hock one up....

This has happened before and the Spirit MEC didn't insist on a final, complete and ratified agreement? Appalling.

I am smelling one of two things here. Another ALPA sellout/Capitulation or gross incompetence to learn from history. Either way the continued silence does not bode well and the longer it goes on I have to wonder about dissension within the Sprit MEC itself.