Its easy to see when FWAAAs pride has been hurt. He resorts to making broad attacks instead to true debate. I guess that why he is a Blogging lawyer instead of a real one. I'm sure he is aware that my words are not meant to influence a judge or an executive but rather my peers lest they get duped again.
There will be no six year term imposed on us unless we do it to ourselves. FWAAA can no longer throw out that "Red Herring". Concessions will be what we are willing to give, if the court imposes them on us we have ways of making that a bad move, and we will have to go that route. Even the court should not be permitted to take away our rights. The question is do they really want to elevate things to that level? If we go that route I would hope that we could get our peers who would likely be put through the same thing once again to join us, maybe an industrywide overtime ban during what is looking to be a very heavy travel season this summer? Who knows? We arent the only ones who are fed up and things are much worse for us now than they were during the last "summer from hell".
Look at the "nonsense" that being presented to us. After tolerating four years of stonewalling, by the company, by the NMB and by some who are supposed to be on our side, we are in C-11 where, as we sit at the bottom of the industry the company is trying to get us to, under the threat of being able to impose new terms while we are denied self help, accept even more concessions, and why? Because they need them to survive? NO. They are doing this so they can not only buy 500 new airplanes (that will eliminate an estimated 3000 jobs in addition to the RIFS) but earn over 17% in profits!!!! So they can be the most profitable airline ever while we are the lowest paid in the industry.
Maybe these "irrelevant facts" mean nothing to FWAAA, maybe they mean nothing to the Judge (although the two week extension indicates that they may mean something, Hostess was only shooting for 10% and that judge rejected their request) but I think it means something to my peers, the people who were duped into accepting concessions in 2003 because they were told those sacrifices would be considered when AA filed for BK, who are being duped into working for inferior wages and benefits, the ones who will either continue to say NO to this "nonsense' or roll over and accept it.
