Although the foreign outsourcing did happen it was not added outsourcing as you are indicating. Some rather large things changed between offer 1 and offer 2. SWA lost 8 lines of maint slots at a vendor within the states, United way underbidded SWA to be sure that they would win all 8 slots. So if you really wanna know who, go complain at the teamsters over at United who just allowed an increase in outsourcing as those were all 8 new slots for United to outsource. SWA looked for another vendor within the states to handle all 8 slots and none in the states had room for SWA, they were all booked full, so they were forced to look overseas. Although we did not like it, most were fed up with waiting so long for a new contract and since it did not increase the current levels of outsourcing and article 2 remained untouched, all previous protections were brought back into the body of the contract and more in house maint added as well, it pretty much was a no brainer. Pretty hard to turn down an ILC with full retro + more, 23% increase for 2019 and the outgoing years averaged 3.25% each and every year. IL PS and 401K & retirement. There were other additions that better benefited the membership in vac, floating holidays and time off as well as lesser restrictions with calling in sick on day trades.
With all that said NYer, I still do not agree with the foreign outsourcing at all, not one bit. However I was a yes voter this time around. Why? Because we were tired of being beat down and sitting idle for so long with no pay raises while watching all the other airlines enjoy their new raises.
Some other changes that were agreed to was the addition of hiring more mechanics if we were to vote it in and they are and will pick up hiring in 2020. What morons would not vote for that??? Oh yea 4% of the morons voted no, but those are your dead set no voters every time no matter what the offers are.
Now were just moving on with life and enjoying a new contract that our NC fought long and hard for. If the membership did not fully support our NC's then article 2 would have been decimated, no full retro, a mere 13.8% snap up, and an average of 2.1% raises per year and with unlimited foreign and local outsourcing, not to mention "C" checks would have all been gone along with 2 lines of heavy maint in Dallas.
And now you know the rest of the story. We would have been stupid to not vote that 2nd offer in NYer. I will say the company knew they had to pad the retro with millions more to ensure a yes vote with the 8 lines of maint. they desperately needed in a hurry.
