I find it somewhat two-faced or hypocritical in the recent arbitration involving the Polar FE's furloughs and Capt downgrades.
Those Polar positions were gained at the expense of about 175 Atlas crewmembers and 5 A/C when Atlas crewmembers were in their initial contract negotiations with no section 6 protections. That resulted in management moving those A/C and jobs over to Polar as an exercise in pressuring the Atlas crewmembers to cave during negotiations.
Now Polar seems to deem that all military airlift which was most of the aforementioned flying and A/C as theirs forever since they touched it at one time despite who had it before (at the expense of Atlas crewmembers jobs btw) or competes for it. Now they have the audacity to cry foul when the same happens to them. That nasty Atlas Air ACMI company then starts scheduled service flying Atlas route authorities that Polar enjoyed flying at the expense of more Atlas jobs.
What is the phrase I'm looking for here, is it "Pull the ladder up I got mine"? It looks like that works two ways and it has come full circle.
Personally, I think it would be better to work together and use the best parts of both our contracts merged together into a merged company. That way the company can't play us off each other any more. Then again, we can continue down this road as it exists now and not get anywhere or further downsized depending on which end of the negotiations cycle our sides are on.
Last edited by nitty-gritty; 5th February 2008 at 17:39.