Dear ALL, (minus ACMS)
Let us all stick together. By our very make up we have many different agendas but we need to put that all aside. We can not sell others down the path for a short term personal benefit ( flying freight, extending on A scale, conditional raises, no back dating etc etc.) For once lets do the proper thing, VOTE NO. It is the no risk answer to this. Lets all vote no then continue on our present terms and conditions. None of us is going to die over that option and bonus, none of us will get screwed. We would put the ball back in the companies court and see what they do. We KNOW they need help in crewing, we KNOW they need to stop people leaving. When the company told the AOA that they would not consider a retroactive increase to July07 the GC should have got up and walked out. CX CAN NOT change our CoS without our agreement, so what if they "Impose" a pay raise, let them, that doesn't help their cause much. As members of the AOA we all need to make clear to our representatives what it is WE want, and how WE want them to react. No more "secret" talks, no more "selling" of a substandard deal that pits one group against another to the benefit of only one, CX. Please, everyone look at the big picture, stay together and vote NO.
Oh yes, ACMS you do what suits you, as you always seem to do.