cleardirect
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- May 24, 2008
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Buddy, this has to do with the west also. Are you happy with a 10k pat on the head? Haven't you given up contractual improvements over the last 8 years? Doesn't this bother you that you will be slapped into a BK contract? Doesn't it bother you that you will lose profit sharing in a company that will potentially make 2 billion in profits per year? And then you'll have to pay four times as much for a Rx in copays?
All I'm saying is that this contract stinks and that there is a better deal in the 11th hour.
I'm not dwelling the past, I'm considering it in the context of the future.
There is irony in any situation if you are inclined to look for it. However, I don't place a lot of blame on east or west, but management, who have profited from our plight every day since 2005. Don't you feel used and abused? I do, and I want to make sure Parker leaves some $$ on the nightstand before he leaves the room.
NO.
No I am not happy about any of this. No the MOU is not great. But the west was put in this position by the east pilots and management. The west understood that we were not going to get anything out of the contract because the east was so far behind. We accepted that. Then the east decided that getting 95% of the contract was not enough. You wanted 95% of the contract and all the seniority leaving nothing for the west.
Then the east demanded separate ops taking all of the benefits of the merger leaving the west with nothing.
Management has taken advantage because east pilots refused to live up to your agreement of arbitration.
So the west was not going to get much in a contract. Now this MOU the west is not going to get anything. So to see the east whine that you are in the same position that you have put the west in is funny.
East pilots made the argument that majority rules. Now that you are in the minority you don't like it.