WB you sound like you will be better off following the proven liar and UA board member "Cheap Suites" Canale
maybe you work with mindless drones at your station but I don't at mine
I made up my mind to vote NO on this p o s agreement just as I did the last one before I ever read a word of Tim Nelson's thoughts on the subject
your comments that we mindlessly follow someone just proves your lack of credibility in my view
well for starters , i'm just going to come out and say it , what’s up with the demonization of Canale ?
As many of you know I’m a westie who hasn’t been through what you’ve experienced , but I have to wonder if many of you are simply taking out your emotions of having had to endure two BK’s and transferring that to the union president ?
You guys call the man all sorts of names , cheap suits , etc , and you constantly slander and libel him …. It’s like many of you are in jr high … I have to say that when you complain about our union president and you do so by calling him names you lose a lot of credibility with me …
Now from what I’ve seen of him thus far he seems OK to me … he actually came out to one of the protests that we had out here in PHX , and if I were to count him as an east guy , then he’s the ONLY east guy to ever show up at one of our protests … I understand that he makes 100k plus and thus it’s far more simple for him to show up at a protest than it is for the rest of us … still thou like I said , he’s the only east sider to ever show .
As far as what he’s gotten negotiated in the TA , it seems REASONABLE enough to me.. ..
Look I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again , these are bad economic times … you guys then retort that I’m running around screaming the sky is falling etc… well guess what , if I lose this job it’s not like I’m going to die , I can find another job elsewhere doing something else as can most of us , so please stop labeling those of us who are talking about the current realities in this country as mad men .
The US economy IS slowing … heck just the other day I was at the golden arches and I went to order off the dollar menu… well guess what brothers and sisters , you no longer get a medium fry for a dollar , they’ve shrunk it to a small fry!!! The indignity!!!!
Gas at my local station , well guess what , it’s gone up again since the last time I mentioned it on this board a few days ago … now it’s 335 ….
Us airways lost close to 240 million for Q2008 ….
The price of a barrel of oil is pretty freaking high right now …
Now I want each of you to imagine yourselves as the union negotiator ….. how easy do you think it would be right now to bargain for fleet ? Remember don’t let the rhetoric that many people spew on these boards influence you … when your sitting at the table it stops being about bravado and it becomes about what you can REALLY accomplish for your brothers and sisters who are counting on you to give your all ….
If I were to put myself in the position of negotiator I doubt I would have even been able to get this much … I commend the men and women on our NC for doing what I think is an acceptable job in these bad times .
