SWAPA Mediation

[shootr]

From the BOD...

Filing for National Mediation
SWAPA Pilots-Tomorrow SWAPA is filing for federal mediation with the National Mediation Board (NMB). This process is a normal part of Section 6 bargaining under the Railway Labor Act but it's one that SWAPA and Southwest have never had to employ in our 30-year relationship.

Discuss...

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Elvis has left the building.

 

[humveedriver]

Management is clearly comfortable with the process and feels it will have a negligible impact on the stock price. Mediation is better than the current offers being floated out there. Anything Gary can do to lower costs he will, so stretching out negotiations has to be important to him.

 

[BR715]

Have been down this road before. We are talking years before we receive a contract. Personally I think all the unions that have open contracts should get together and call for Gary Kelly to resign. Here are some reasons for my thinking.
1. Took 5 years to complete the full integration of AirTran. Way to long
2. The product needs help.
A. Get rid of cattle call boarding.
B. Assigned seating
C. Overhead bins in every 737 besides 800 suck.
3. Making way to big a deal about international flying. To slow to react on this front. Spirit
will be doing this flying for almost 2 years by the time our international terminals are
done.
4. Total fleet count will be down 25 airframes after 717's are parked at the beginning of
2015. It will take all year to get the count back to year end 2014 levels. Should have
found more 73's. When ATL to PIT only has 2 flight you know your getting thin.

No doubt SWA will remain profitable for years to come. But if we want to take the next step then they have to shed the way decisions are made at the top levels.

 

[HowardBorden]

Well it's about time!

It has been evident for some time that the offers made by management do not accurately reflect the current financial health of the company. SWA is a financially sound institution and needs to bargain in a manner that adequately rewards those employee groups that have allowed these times of record profitability.

If the NMB needs to mediate in order to reach an equitable contract then so be it.

 

[jonjuan]

5 Rocket stocks to buy. http://www.thestreet.com/story/1295...-season-ends-southwest-airlines-and-more.html

Southwest. top stock of 2014.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/inv...best-stock-2014/index.html?source=yahoo_quote

 

[canyonblue]

No doubt SWA will remain profitable for years to come. But if we want to take the next step then they have to shed the way decisions are made at the top levels.

Yeah, I can think of some stupid decisions. uke:

 

[Nindiri]

Ahhh...this place is feeling more like home all the time.

 

[humveedriver]

Ahhh...this place is feeling more like home all the time.

True dat.

 

[Kharma Police]

Does SWAPA not understand that Gary expects payback for the SLI he negotiated for them? Geesh SWAPA, you think all those captain seats that were "captured" came for free? Time to pay the Piper, b!tches.