There is an old adage in arbitration, "We're not happy until your not happy"and that is what will ultimately happen.
Exactly what arbitrator Harris said at the beggining of the arb for the merged list. It is also kind of the title of this thread.
Polar wants 40 months, Atlas wants 12,
actually after Polar refused to come off of the 40 months, Atlas changed their tune somewhat. Now they are not interested in a "Polar follow the flying" for even one month.
somewhere in the middle is where it will end up and no one will be happy.
No one is happy now: does everyone have to get more unhappy? If Polar is so unhappy and Atlas is so unhappy then why is Polar trying to make everyone even more unhappy. The answer is below...
In the meantime, a lot of Polaroids are making a lot of money for sitting home. It can't last.
...and it won't. listen to the vars about six posts above.
See the problem is that Polar has changed their tune somewhat. Prior to the announcement of the mergerd list (which Polar thinks is just as bad for the Polar pilots as Atlas does for themselves) Polar was all for a merger. In fact in one of his VARS messages Bobb accused Atlas negotiators of dragging their feet, which is exactly what Polar is now doing. They are throwing roadblocks in front of the merger process - and the 40 months FTF is just the latest. They don't really care about follow the flying. The reason they will not negotiate it is because they want to delay the merger until they can find yet another grievance to file, or find a sympathetic judge or arbitrator who will agree with them on their scope language.
In my opinion Plan B has only begun. The rest of it will be worse than the already announced re-furloughs. This is brinksmanship at its worst. I just hope the Polar guys all have jobs when Bobb is done with his game.
Isn't it time to get on board, finish this thing and all work together?