Atlas STN

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Originally Posted by Furloughed

Thanks Bobb and Robin, on behalf of all of us crewmembers looking to get on with the show and get fixes, new pay scales, longevity scales, into a combined merged contract. Bobb and Robin know better. I forgot, great job on that last section 6. What was that, an 18 month contract with essentially the same bag of money that was on the table before the strike, just distributed differently?

Regrettably, a true statement about the strike but no different than the STN travel on the one hand but giving up jumpseat positioning on the other.

There will be no fix, no new payscales until the end of a 30 day clock is in view. I just doubt the Atlas MEC and overall pilot ranks has the stomach for it. That is where the blame lies and not with Polar

There will be no fix until the Polar side decides to stop side stepping the merger with a wish list of "make believe" section 6 negotiations. The arbitrations of if the merger priority sequence grievance (just heard) followed by the merger grievance itself being heard will determine that.

After Atlas crewmembers experienced the help from the Polar MEC side that pledged solidarity and then the Polar MEC requested relief from that pledge of "not flying Atlas A/C and contracts" when it came down to the eleventh hour of the Atlas strike countdown, I can see why Atlas crewmembers do not have the stomach for it. Let's see, Polar volunteering to scab and AACS all willing to fly our A/C and routes let alone the non union carriers that were contracted on the side. Probably being smart more than not having the stomach for it as you suggest. Especially after the Polar MEC showed their true colors volunteering Polar's membership to scab at the eleventh hour.

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The Atlas membership going on a sympathy strike despite all of the previous sabotaging actions by the Polar MEC to Atlas crewmembers showed more stomach than anything demonstrated by Polar. A sympathy strike in which we were ordered back to work by the federal court. No other carrier did that for you, only Atlas. Atlas crewmembers showed a lot of stomach and solidarity. Only to be rewarded by another knife in the back for their efforts. Exampled here in streaming MP3 HERE (back in Jan 2007) or Right Click Here and Save As.

Scorecard wise, I have yet to see any real effort on the Polar side to get along with others as a union. More of a What have you done for me today attitude. Can you produce anything otherwise? I mean in action and not in words. We at Atlas now know that Polar's words mean nothing when it comes down to living up to them.

Are you listening Astar guys? Watch your backs.

It appears that the Bobb Henderson and Robin Hair show have you geared only towards a Section 6 negotiation that will lead to a repeat of the past Atlas and Polar actions again. Except I doubt that the Atlas side will do more than what is legally required by them. No voluntary sympathy strikes as we did for you in the past. We have seen what that has gotten us. I'm sure Polar will repeat their volunteering to fly our stuff again if we have to strike.

So it seems to be true that Polar has a short and selective memory.

Should the merger get blocked through this latest tactic by the Polar MEC and section 6 negotiations start, we will be repeating history except there will be no support. Not that Polar side provided any for the other union anyway.

Having said this, I have a hard time believing an arbiter finding for Polar in these arbitrations. Time will tell.

All of this over the "follow the flying" which was already decided by an arbitration of the seniority lists earlier this year.