Yes Sked I agree with you on pretty much all your points there. If the company is willing to spend this much money on an advertising campaign to get the EBA voted In, then what is it going to save them by having the EBA in place?
From what I *have* read of your document, well its an insult to say the least. Effectively no payrise (3% per year for the first 3 years - 3% is currently less than CPI); a 5 year EBA thats *not* backdated - so effectively it will have been almost 7 years between the expiration of your current agreement and the expiry of this new one; restrictions on the amount of movement that will be allowed for you in the company (for those who don't know, effectively F/O's are allowed only 2 'moves' whilst they are with
VB - their first 'move' MUST be an upgrade to Captain, and the second move (which could be across to the Embraer for example) is the final 'move' they are allowed until they have been with the company for 15 years). Captains are only allowed *one* move - so if they were to go from being a Captain on the 737 across to an F/O on the Embraer - too bad, thats where they stay forever more or less!
The sad thing is if you were promised a whole pile of things during negotiations ($15K and the international project both come to mind) just to have them taken away, well tell me where the level of trust lies?
PS A beer sounds great ha ha
