Oh, I would consider myself pleased for the delay in our possible liquidation, but I will only be "happy" when this affair is over and we can move on again.
Plus, four months is a meaningless limitation.
In four months, we either have our agreements in place, or the creditors will impose a 100% paycut,
THAT is what will "tilt" the negotiations.
Like I said before, national unions care more about maintaining dues revenue than you. Another issue that the national unions have no interest whatsoever in visiting is actually having a contract abrogated in court. This has never been done before, and rather than even chance it, they will do everything possible at the end to come to an agreement to avoid precedent being established.
Again, they do not care about you so much, as they care about maintaining the relevence and cohesion of all CBA's.
Anyways,
The point is that the company was able to obtain 1113e relief of a degree that has not been seen in our industry before. Something you yourself said would not happen.
And more important, the temp cuts buy the time to get us through leanest of months, where instead of mere weeks, we have a few months till running short of $$$. It is no mistake that the temp cuts are just enough to allow for the full 1113c negotiations to run their course.
Why...? Because the spin will be, that as the clock runs down both on contract abrogation (and what remains of the cash), that your unions will follow ALPA's lead and come to an agreement, because "no other option remains" .
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Plus, four months is a meaningless limitation.
In four months, we either have our agreements in place, or the creditors will impose a 100% paycut,
THAT is what will "tilt" the negotiations.
Like I said before, national unions care more about maintaining dues revenue than you. Another issue that the national unions have no interest whatsoever in visiting is actually having a contract abrogated in court. This has never been done before, and rather than even chance it, they will do everything possible at the end to come to an agreement to avoid precedent being established.
Again, they do not care about you so much, as they care about maintaining the relevence and cohesion of all CBA's.
Anyways,
The point is that the company was able to obtain 1113e relief of a degree that has not been seen in our industry before. Something you yourself said would not happen.
And more important, the temp cuts buy the time to get us through leanest of months, where instead of mere weeks, we have a few months till running short of $$$. It is no mistake that the temp cuts are just enough to allow for the full 1113c negotiations to run their course.
Why...? Because the spin will be, that as the clock runs down both on contract abrogation (and what remains of the cash), that your unions will follow ALPA's lead and come to an agreement, because "no other option remains" .
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