Bad-Andy
waiting.......
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- Jan 31, 2002
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Yep that means some of the East guys (including myself) will be pulling gear for a PHX commuter and it also means that some of you West guys will have to watch the A330's taxi by with out you in it.
What the heck drugs are you on? (And why aren't you sharing them with your friends???) There is only one way out of this fight -- and that starts in December 2012.... The West has no one to negotiate for them. Even their reps get removed from meetings. The smartest guy we had on the negotiating committee has taken a break. (Regardless of anyone's opinions of his politics, he was the one guy I trusted in that whole mess...) We still don't have a response to the LOA 93 grievance. And, as a bunch of guys already said, we already have the solution (it came in the form of binding arbitration) -- we either live with it or we don't. There cannot be a middle ground. If we sit down and negotiate a middle ground, that sets the precedent for no binding arbitration to stand again. What happens when (if) we win LOA 93? The company will say "Sorry, that was an agreement with a previous bargaining agent that no longer exists." Then they just won't pay. And it will take years in court to settle the issue. That is a can of worms that we don't dare open.
So, while I share your sentiments about wishing we could sit down and work this out and get a contract with decent work rules and a livable wage (working doubles and triples in the sim on every day off is getting old quick...), I have to disagree with your suggested process. Some things mustn't be compromised.
As for the integrity issue, most of the guys here (on both sides) are decent people, and are men of their word. A select few are obviously not... But, to the guy that says to "study human behavior" I would agree. But study it accurately, not in some fantasy world. If you want to understand what is really happening here, Robert Brault summed it up best in his quote, "You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest."