High Speed Steel
Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2004
- Messages
- 1,375
- Reaction score
- 136
-The members were told that if they did not vote Pass the "Last, Best and FINAL offer" that the sky would fall. The turd got voted down the sky did not fall. the Judge has pushed his decision back two more weeks, he enlisted the help of another judge to mediate it.
despite the fact that the company is being permitted to keep their Business plan secret several important points have been revealed that may change many of the YES voters minds.
-The company does not need any concessions from M&R or Stores to survive, some of our current terms may put them at a slight disadvantage but to date we have no proof of that. The RIFs that the Union proposed more than covered what the company claimed they needed. Freezing the DB pension, terminating retiree medical and all the other concesions were simply "Gross Overkill".
-The company was demanding $212 from M&R and $20 million from Stores even though they only claimed they needed $170 million from M&R and $18 million from Stores. Their excuse for the extra $41 million from M&R and $2 million from Stores? "We are taking 20% from everyone and 1113 requires us to take the same percentage from everyone".
-They voluntarily enterred BK and their objective is to come out of C-11 and earn more profits than any other airline by paying us much less than any other airline. Money would come directly out of our pockets and go into theirs so they can but 500 new airplanes and provide huge bonuses to management.
How's that?
Seems based off of your numbers you concede that the 2010 TA on cost out would have satisfied the company as a reasonable contract for us, but your "No vote" campaign nullified that. It would have given you a $2.00 raise for working the line would have given Informer and myself the satisfaction of equal pay to that of our peers within the bases. Seems now abrogation is pending unless the negotiation committees can pull a rabbit out of a hat. I often wonder what the objective is here, seems doing away with overhaul is a special project for some.....