2 years to the opener.simply_no_one wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:46 pmThanks man I come from an ALPA carrier, and miss it. ACPA is a dumpster fire run by an old boys club who only care about their flight release and maintaining "power"...notwhoyouthinkIam wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:43 pmI'm sorry that you're having such a bad time with ALPA.simply_no_one wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:41 pm
And if the 600 furloughs were on CEWS they'd still be paying dues.
Also I completely disagree with your post anyways. We are still members of ACPA and have the longest time left in this job over pretty much every active pilot. They should be protecting our futures and the future of the job in general. The old adage "we don't negotiate for people not hired yet" is an old way of thinking and it's how we ended up where we are now with horrible 4 year flat pay and a garbage pension.
I can tell you for a fact that not every ALPA pilot group feels the way the AC pilot group seems to feel. I can give you some more specifics over PM if you'd like, but my bargaining group is doing an absolutely amazing job! [coming from another furloughed pilot]
I know ALPA has been doing pretty good for other groups including Jazz.
My dream is the pilots here wake up and kick ACPA to the curb. Enough of giving away the farm to "capture" flying... If the same people are in charge come next major contract renewal I'm very very worried of what bullshit they will try to sell us.
3 until the framework MOA is done and it's restrictions and protections lifted.
Unless ACPA decides to declare the benchmarks not met in 2023, which it is very likely they won't be.
Might not be a strategically sound move though depending on the rate of recovery between now and then.
Either way it's likely MR will try to lock us down again for another 10 in 2023 with the pandemic crisis fresh in our minds - no crisis wasted.
They'll probably promise to bring all the furloughs back on the property in exchange for a long term deal.
An apathetic and uniformed membership will fall for it... this time we'll probably get 1% raises, and 1% lump sums... and another B pass.
The corp will come out with surprise profits beating analysts through '24, '25, '26. Just like we did '14, '15, '16 right after we signed up for the current 10...
The time is now for the association to prepare the membership for the opener and a new contract which is imminent then, or the following year. Let's get some recovery targets and stop looking at our feet mid pandemic. Let's start hearing where the US traffic recovery is, where the US majors are reporting expected profits... let get a look at where we're heading on the upswing out of this.
If we go in beat down, we're going to get the contract beat down we deserve.
And if I hear another guy at work tell me that we're just lucky to have jobs... I'm flying the whole pairing.