reactions:
- VERY mixed, but no one is celebrating
- waiting, screaming for all the detais to make a good assessment
pay compared to US majors:
- 50% of their gross pre raise... you figure it out
- working rules are nowhere as good either, but they made some improvements in the proposal
"caving in":
- Maybe (!!) some people in the commitee did so.
But we elected them as our representatives!
We said we´d support them, and I believe we have to now, even if only to keep the position we have finally achieved in this country as "partner" to be taken serious.
VC has a rather limited budget and resources (with VERY few people actually running the show), but have managed to pull of some rather effective and disciplined actions.
After a few years in close combat on smaller battlefields in DLH, I can only guess on how big the pressure was on some of the negotiators.
Most of them are/were "amateurs" (not meant in a demeaning way) up against company pros with a "limitless" budget, resources and training, as well as big union guns blasting away at them, while they were trying to "overthrow the government".
I hope we can analyze/scrutinize the whole affair, without falling apart, and continue building up VC for the future.
It´s all so f@cking political and union politics are so dirty.
Standby for more info and explanations once I´ve seen all the fine-print.
[This message has been edited by wonderbusdriver (edited 08 June 2001).]