The answer is sometimes they are there. As I said many months ago when the nmb was invited in, these are not nmb controlled talks. That comes under section 6 once a side has declared a impass. As you know these are not section 6 talks.
Yes I agree. Went through that 2 times with LUS. And yes they are reminded. But imo the company has lost the initiative now to get this done by the end of the year. Open enrollment is in place for the insurance, and any other benefit like the co-mingling that a new contract would bring the company, is going to have very little impact this late in the year on their bottom line. So I personally think they are now focused on 2018.
I don't disagree at all. But some people out there still thinks this company respects us. The letter they put out on negotiations should show those people how respected we are. Maybe if your a mechanic you can still feel some respect. But for fleet? Parker stated a long time ago that a ramp job is not a career job anymore. That's how he truly feels about fleet. He could care less how disrespected fleet feels as long as the planes get loaded.
Some people think these lack of meetings in the next two months is the company pushing back due to the info picketing. It is possible I guess, especially if the company has already conceded that nothing will be reached for this year, they may just use the lack of scheduling as their way of pushing back. I do know for sure the picketing gets under the companies skin big time. This was the reason the company released their letter to the membership a few weeks back.
First off, My post about the crying wasn't directed specifically at you. And I guess we will disagree on if crying is a strong word. I personally don't see the strength in the word crying. But anyway, you absolutely have a right to express your opinion. I respect the fact that you even care enough to get on here. But as I have said, you have to have both sides agreeing to meet. Doesn't do us any good to be there if the company is not.
I can only explain it this way. Take the overtime article for instance. Once the IAM and TWU groups hash it out about a particular article, and some articles take a very long time to do that. But once the association comes together and agree with way your going, you then present it to the company and the company gives a proposal of just the opposite back to you. Like where we would adopt the twu language, the company would want to adopt IAM. And where we would want to adopt the IAM, the company would go twu language. Well then it basically puts the IAM and twu back to square one in what each side must have and what we can achieve from the company. This can be, and obviously has been very time consuming. It's basically two sets of negotiatiins going on at one time. The association negotiates among the two sides first, then once you've reached an agreement with the two sides, you then have to go through the company.
