Bob, when a company is in trouble and as long as everybody's helping out, I don't have no problem helping out, unlike you. Sure! I would've like to put a stipulation that when good times is back we snap back and resume our current contract and future raises and so on. I also understand why that couldn't be done and it was applied to every employee group.
At what point you ask is enough? When everything is taken away and it's no longer worth being here then it's time to say "no". At this point, $30/hour and no cuts with the current medical, it is still ok, I'm still able to provide for my family. I'm actively looking for an alternate employment, if I can find one, because I don't want to go through this till I retire.
Bob, all I'm trying to tell you is we can only try to minimize the changes to our contract when you're in this situation and that's it.
Here's excerpts of what the AFA leadership is saying:
We do not want to give concessions, but the circumstances we face require cost cutting to ensure the survival of our company.
Our goal continues to be, to have control and influence over any changes to our Contract.
As we have said before, lamenting how or why we got to this point in our history will only “bog†us down, and time is better spent attempting to find a way for our airline to emerge successfully from bankruptcy and once again prosper. There are numerous parties, especially our competitors, who would like for us to fail. Failure means our airline moves into Chapter 7 Liquidation and jobs for 80,000 employees would no longer exist.
We worked incredibly hard to stay out of bankruptcy because we knew that changes to our Contract inside bankruptcy would be much greater. There is no way to sugar coat this, these changes are going to hurt, so be prepared.
It is important to understand that we are participating in these discussions because we have a chance to shape the way the cuts are applied. If we just walked away, management would take its last offer to the bankruptcy court judge and ask for the changes to be made to our Contract. Not negotiating leaves all of the control in the hands of management and a bankruptcy judge. We want to keep as much control over this impossible situation as we can. In the end, you will get a chance to vote on any agreement we reach.
At what point you ask is enough? When everything is taken away and it's no longer worth being here then it's time to say "no". At this point, $30/hour and no cuts with the current medical, it is still ok, I'm still able to provide for my family. I'm actively looking for an alternate employment, if I can find one, because I don't want to go through this till I retire.
Bob, all I'm trying to tell you is we can only try to minimize the changes to our contract when you're in this situation and that's it.
Here's excerpts of what the AFA leadership is saying:
We do not want to give concessions, but the circumstances we face require cost cutting to ensure the survival of our company.
Our goal continues to be, to have control and influence over any changes to our Contract.
As we have said before, lamenting how or why we got to this point in our history will only “bog†us down, and time is better spent attempting to find a way for our airline to emerge successfully from bankruptcy and once again prosper. There are numerous parties, especially our competitors, who would like for us to fail. Failure means our airline moves into Chapter 7 Liquidation and jobs for 80,000 employees would no longer exist.
We worked incredibly hard to stay out of bankruptcy because we knew that changes to our Contract inside bankruptcy would be much greater. There is no way to sugar coat this, these changes are going to hurt, so be prepared.
It is important to understand that we are participating in these discussions because we have a chance to shape the way the cuts are applied. If we just walked away, management would take its last offer to the bankruptcy court judge and ask for the changes to be made to our Contract. Not negotiating leaves all of the control in the hands of management and a bankruptcy judge. We want to keep as much control over this impossible situation as we can. In the end, you will get a chance to vote on any agreement we reach.
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