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Old 05-23-2012, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by AV8ER13
Glad to see someone gets it...I hear a lot of DPA talk...but very little action to change APLA...run or campaign if you don't like the reps. I wonder what would happen if all that DPA energy and money went into changing ALPA....humm, just a thought
ALPA is a poisoned well.

Even if we recall every single rep, we're still stuck wasting money on a "union" that must look out for RJ pilots as much as they look out for us. Our interests are subjugated.

How much juice was spent to get the "ALPA carrier" hiring requirements in our TA? I don't think that was anywhere in the survey.
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Old 05-23-2012, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Xray678
What if a second TA is not better? Or it takes a year to get another 3% in pay? Was it worth it?

The large raises some guys expected were never going to happen. This TA is below what I expected, but not so much below to take a chance on voting it down.
While the initial raise is less than it should be, that's not even my major malfunction with it. Net work rule concessions (300 less pilots by our own admission) another large amount of DC-9-10 replacement jets at the labor busters (lost leverage that we will be saddled with in C2016 by the way as we try and keep our rates up on our new used orphaned "hundred seater" 717) and the preservation of an insane and insunting vacation day rate just to name a few.

We are funding the company's DCI fleet plan, we are funding our work rules with our work rules, we are funding our "raise" with some profit sharing and we are funding the retirement bubble by paying for an early out that helps the company big time.

I could live with the rates if we got a significant increase in work rule/soft money and started to reduce large RJs. Without being single issue at all, this TA falls short in so many areas and that's OK...send it back and get it right.
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Old 05-23-2012, 01:33 PM
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So many posts,so little memory,but haven't people posted that there are scope hawks on ATL 's LEC?
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Old 05-23-2012, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by HercDriver130
Is it possible that some of the YES votes did so, so that A) the pilot group could see the offer from MGT and b) let the entire pilot group vote it up or down

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One of my yes voting reps told me that he wanted us to make the determination. He didn't want to be acused of hiding the information from us. He was very disappointed in the TA.
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Old 06-03-2012, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by More Bacon
ALPA is a poisoned well.


How much juice was spent to get the "ALPA carrier" hiring requirements in our TA? I don't think that was anywhere in the survey.


None.

Use your head.

In the last hiring cycle, DCI pilots made up over half of the pilots hired.

No negotiating capital spent there.
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Old 06-03-2012, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Xray678
What if a second TA is not better? Or it takes a year to get another 3% in pay? Was it worth it?

The large raises some guys expected were never going to happen. This TA is below what I expected, but not so much below to take a chance on voting it down.
It is management's job to figure out what could pass by 50.1%. This is a pretty good TA, short length and all. Accessing what our competitors are doing (No help whatsoever), this TA is light years better than what UA/ AA/US have. Not great, but not bad.
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Old 06-03-2012, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by More Bacon
...How much juice was spent to get the "ALPA carrier" hiring requirements in our TA? I don't think that was anywhere in the survey.
Quite frankly that was one of the few items in the TA that has my complete support and respect.

That part is pure unadulterated union stuff. It's long been my chief complaint about ALPA. An organization that has somehow forgotten why and how ALPA exists.

This is one of those few instances where someone remembered and insisted and recognition of that is in order.

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Old 06-03-2012, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by gloopy
While the initial raise is less than it should be, that's not even my major malfunction with it. Net work rule concessions (300 less pilots by our own admission) another large amount of DC-9-10 replacement jets at the labor busters (lost leverage that we will be saddled with in C2016 by the way as we try and keep our rates up on our new used orphaned "hundred seater" 717) and the preservation of an insane and insunting vacation day rate just to name a few.

We are funding the company's DCI fleet plan, we are funding our work rules with our work rules, we are funding our "raise" with some profit sharing and we are funding the retirement bubble by paying for an early out that helps the company big time.

I could live with the rates if we got a significant increase in work rule/soft money and started to reduce large RJs. Without being single issue at all, this TA falls short in so many areas and that's OK...send it back and get it right.
Very well stated.
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Old 06-03-2012, 10:08 PM
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I was sitting in the crew lounge today in msp, and listen to one of my rep answering some questions. All i could think of to ask was about Section 1, and we both understood the importance of how the ratio will be enforced, and we both agreed the pay issue is not on par with what we asked for. He didn't seem to think the reserve rules change is gonna affect manning formula significantly, and some of that will hinge on the new FTDT as well. He was disappointed that the TA got sent to membership though it wasn't unanimously passed in the MEC level. If they sent it back to the NC, and tweak it a bit before we've seen it, he thought it would be for the best.

Overall it wasn't much of a sales job, just some information exchange. Don't shoot the messenger, but he guesstimate the TA will pass around 65%.
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Old 06-03-2012, 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by georgetg
Quite frankly that was one of the few items in the TA that has my complete support and respect.

That part is pure unadulterated union stuff. It's long been my chief complaint about ALPA. An organization that has somehow forgotten why and how ALPA exists.

This is one of those few instances where someone remembered and insisted and recognition of that is in order.

Cheers
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I agree completely.
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