To be honest sometimes I admire Delta, why we wait forever to get a raise negotiated, as soon as we get one, they just pay their guys more. Over there if you don't pull your weight they just fire you.
Ive seen people reassigned for taking acft out of service for legitimate reasons. It happens.
Send a note to the FAA. They will in fact put a stop to it. Same thing happened at SWA for some mechanics writing up legit cracks and they all were made whole and then some. SWA was spanked very hard for doing so by many different gov agencies, and are still currently being investigated for other crap they tried to pull.
It seems the upset Lazy mechanics have the biggest sense of entitlement that the company is screwing them.
We saw in Tulsa just recently what AA would do with no union. They just got rid of over 100 non union workers mostly because they were old. They'd do the same to us if they could. Doesn't matter how good a worker you are. There were some really good workers in the group that got let go.
As sad as it sounds they can. They just don't have to admit it is all. They always try to get the older ones out one way or another. Some of those elderly ones in their upper 60's-80's are extremely costly on the medical side for the company. Higher cost to them than just a simple 100K buyout offer.
With the signing bonus a bunch could have retired this year, but people said no. So there was the old guys buy out ,so to speak.
So you voted yes and more people voted no. System worked the way its supposec too. You should have gone out and encouraged a yes. Whats done is done.
Of course it is, my station isn't that big, so we wouldn't carry the votes anyway. The fact is Swarat talks about buyouts the back pay and signing bonus would have been a nice chunk of change!
