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#71
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 160
They are under the RLA.
Their contract is not up for Section 6 negotiation for years.
The union and pilot group have supported a IBB process for the last several years, giving the company almost all leverage. The pilots have been voluntarily castrated, and their current CBA discourages solidarity/unified work action because of add-pay provisions. The metal keeps moving...
And then there is their "union"...
Long story, AJ and Uncle Warren are the only happy campers. Along with a group of pilots that successfully know how to suck up.
It's a damn shame...but largely self inflicted -- and those that don't like it are labeled as anti-union outcasts. The only potential salvation is attrition and inability to hire, but those market forces have not yet translated into benefits for the meager and beaten down line pilot of NJA/NJASAP.
Their contract is not up for Section 6 negotiation for years.
The union and pilot group have supported a IBB process for the last several years, giving the company almost all leverage. The pilots have been voluntarily castrated, and their current CBA discourages solidarity/unified work action because of add-pay provisions. The metal keeps moving...
And then there is their "union"...
Long story, AJ and Uncle Warren are the only happy campers. Along with a group of pilots that successfully know how to suck up.
It's a damn shame...but largely self inflicted -- and those that don't like it are labeled as anti-union outcasts. The only potential salvation is attrition and inability to hire, but those market forces have not yet translated into benefits for the meager and beaten down line pilot of NJA/NJASAP.
#72
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Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Chrysler Pacifica
Posts: 204
umm no it's not. It's complete garbage. The company is under zero obligation to negotiate right now and for many more years, yet they are and keep asking to bring us back to the table. So how exactly is the NJA pilot group powerless and castrated? We knew market forces would force them back to the table long before the contract expired.
#73
umm no it's not. It's complete garbage. The company is under zero obligation to negotiate right now and for many more years, yet they are and keep asking to bring us back to the table. So how exactly is the NJA pilot group powerless and castrated? We knew market forces would force them back to the table long before the contract expired.
If you think management keeps begging you back to the table like you hold all the face cards, you are lying to yourself and everyone else within earshot of your voice.
#75
That only proves what we already know…. Hotel points and airline miles really aren’t worth anything. You could go to a fractional to get points, you could go to an airline to paid.
#77
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 454
What's the progress on ML's latest socialistic proposal to take 90% of VFD, VAWD, and FDP worked and spread the wealth to the pilot group? Seems about right, over promise and under deliver and blame the membership for the short comings. Sure. Seems legit. Then his majesty the king said he was only getting started? Yikes. Time for new leadership.
#78
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Joined APC: Mar 2023
Posts: 293
What's the progress on ML's latest socialistic proposal to take 90% of VFD, VAWD, and FDP worked and spread the wealth to the pilot group? Seems about right, over promise and under deliver and blame the membership for the short comings. Sure. Seems legit. Then his majesty the king said he was only getting started? Yikes. Time for new leadership.
Just throwing it out there for the membership to get all wound up on.
Quick Quick Look over here not over there.
#79
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Joined APC: Feb 2006
Position: C47 PIC/747-400 SIC
Posts: 2,100
The company is under no legal obligation you give you a single thing, which is why NJASAP is spending all its efforts picketing irrelevant sporting events to pretend like they are making meaningful change. You and your fellow pilots gave up all the leverage you had by throwing Section 6 to the wind. It worked for a bit in some ways but to see the pilot group outraged at how little leverage you have is laughable. Management wants you to accept whatever they tell you they are willing to give because that is exactly what the pilot group has accepted for the last several years. The union can **** and moan all they want, but there is still zero leverage the pilot group or the union has right now as your contract isn't amendable. The market holds all the leverage, NJASAP and the pilot group hold zero leverage. Literally, nothing you have done has moved the needle and pressured management. The only thing pressuring management is attrition and the ability to hire, and evidence shows they are okay with both of those things for the time being.
If you think management keeps begging you back to the table like you hold all the face cards, you are lying to yourself and everyone else within earshot of your voice.
If you think management keeps begging you back to the table like you hold all the face cards, you are lying to yourself and everyone else within earshot of your voice.
#80
Speed, Power, Accuracy
Joined APC: Sep 2007
Position: PIC
Posts: 1,723
What's the progress on ML's latest socialistic proposal to take 90% of VFD, VAWD, and FDP worked and spread the wealth to the pilot group? Seems about right, over promise and under deliver and blame the membership for the short comings. Sure. Seems legit. Then his majesty the king said he was only getting started? Yikes. Time for new leadership.
But it was never a serious proposal. It was designed to make people think just a LITTLE, TINY BIT harder about the choices they're making. The fact that ML could make so many intellectual lightweights lose their mind was just an amusing byproduct.
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