I do wonder what impression we would be giving if we vote yes to the original RP07?
I need to make clear that I voted NO to RP07 first time round - not because I was making a protest vote, but rather because IMHO it was a pretty good first draft that needed a couple of minor 'tweaks' to be given a resounding YES. Moreover, I lobbied almost everyone I flew with before making my decision, and felt that I needed to support their compelling arguments to decline it with my vote.
Imagine my surprise (
) when the amended version came back - to be clearly worse than the original offer.
The discussion is now about our voting yes to the original offer. If we do that, you can
guarantee that every subsequent offer made by CX is going to as good as it gets. If we don't accept it, they will simply make the offer worse, and then we'll have to accept what they want. I can't see that we have any choice over this one. If we vote YES, having first blown it out of the water we have no credibility left at all, and we are actually making the task of the GC harder. We don't have enough people in the AOA as it is, if we can't even pull together then any vague chance that the company will take us seriously has gone.
Lets be honest too - whatever Korean (or any other airline) are paying, almost no-one is actually going to uproot their family and leave - it's simply not THAT bad. NR knows that as well as we do. I accept that US based guys who are being recalled off furlough are different matter - but still I would bet that the number of people who are actually going to leave will be pretty low.