Latest Pinnacle Negotiations Update

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pilotlight

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Let me summarize it for you:
They were supposed to meet last week, but they couldn't because they couldn't pull the negotiators off of their lines because of short staffing!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA:rotfl:
My prediction of a contract by 2017 is still holding true! Would talk more but i gotta go get this flight out on time right???????
 
pilotlight said:
Let me summarize it for you:
They were supposed to meet last week, but they couldn't because they couldn't pull the negotiators off of their lines because of short staffing!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA:rotfl:
My prediction of a contract by 2017 is still holding true! Would talk more but i gotta go get this flight out on time right???????
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I guess it doesn't help that one of the negotiators is a CRJ-900 CA.

Strikes me as an easy way for Pinnacle to tip-toe around negotiating in good faith.
 
surreal1221 said:
Cheap bastards.

Economy will stay south until companies start bringing people back to work. Tools.
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Or in our case hiring and upgrading. They already sent out the CrewTrac message about 150% for pickups on January 2nd. I've already got a trip scheduled, but I'm reserve anyway. The best I can do is pick up an extra reserve day on one of my 10 days off. Yeah, no thanks.
 
kellwolf said:
Or in our case hiring and upgrading. They already sent out the CrewTrac message about 150% for pickups on January 2nd. I've already got a trip scheduled, but I'm reserve anyway. The best I can do is pick up an extra reserve day on one of my 10 days off. Yeah, no thanks.
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Don't worry. We're still severely overstaffed by Pinnacle standards over here in ATL. No 150% over here.... there are 10 more FOs who will be going to the 200 very soon....
 
flyingmaniac said:
Is there a way to sue the company and union for not having a contract as per the contract on-time?
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You used to be able to strike.

But sometime in the early to mid 80's unions became an invention of Satan and it was decided that it's better to keep the company afloat and abuse people instead.
 
At Mesa in 2007 we didn't have a meeting for the System Board for grievances for 7-8 months straight because the company wouldn't release the grievance committee members to attend it because they were needed to fly the line. I'm pretty sure we filed a grievance on that but well couldn't meet at the system board for that one either!

When we finally managed to get through them they just settled nearly everything rather than go to arbitration and explain why it took so long.
 
kellwolf said:
Not as long as we're under the RLA. If we were under the NLRA like everyone else, we could just walk out the minute the contract expired.
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There are a lot more negatives than positives for being under the NLRA. Watch 2010 for how the RLA is really supposed to work. I think you'll be impressed.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
There are a lot more negatives than positives for being under the NLRA. Watch 2010 for how the RLA is really supposed to work. I think you'll be impressed.
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Your wording leads me to believe you actually meant more positives than negatives. Right?
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Nope. The NLRA wouldn't work well for us. The RLA is a much better system for airline workers. Sure, it could use some tweaks, but no system will ever be perfect.
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Oops, I breezed by the letter "N" in front of one of them. Now the wording makes sense!
 
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