Josh,
did you read the McGee contract and how Sito gave up the 40 hour work week? Ready reserve, split shifts, $13 buck an hour. No health care. No retirement???
That isn't just subsidizing but it forever eliminated all rampers at Alaska airline in SEA from ANYTHING. Did you see what Mike Klemm and the entire Eboard at DL141 did at United? Put out a letter saying that they would never negotiate a UGE contract that agrees to have IAM UGE peeps taking over United Airline work. Now, they are in 40 stations including some stations that came under the ramp contract, and they are fixing to go into RDU, CLT, GSO, etc and 30 other stations in the next 12 months and the asshat IAM DL 141 peeps actually signed on to it and supported the letter of agreement in the back that actually names CLT, RDU, etc as UGE work. And Klemm saying that all the laid off peeps from RDU (PJirish station) and CLT who got tossed out on the street by the IAM can re apply and use their seniority to get a few more paid days off. Did you read that LOA? All of this while your boy Rez stood down in eboard meetings. SMH. We are going to toss all of them out on the street in a big way this time and not just these rotten district people who are now stalling and hoping for section 6 where they can tell the members that the new process will take 3-5 years. You do realize Josh that if these clowns can't negotiate in this ripe environment that it won't get any better in section 6 except produce massive delays and possibly lost jobs. When we toss Sito out in April and toss all of these clowns out who make $175,000+ we will immediately mobilize our negotiations at the Association and agree to expedited talks without canceling talks for hurricaines and conventions but to negotiate a fair and progressive contract. They are taking as much money as possible from the membership and hoping to get away with it. Not happening. If they can't negotiate in this environment with $10 billion net profits then get them the hell out. It's going to happen and we will expedite things and have a fair agreement prior to the September section 6 deadline. No concessionary contract, but a cost positive.