Teamsters shreading Polar quality of life contract

[IslamoradaFlyer]

Miami Freight has is about as wrong as Squealer. If an agreement is reached, it will go out for membership vote. That's why Polar has been dogging it. They know a majority vote would put a contract in place and they are still believing Bahamas and Boobin. That worked out really good...

Fact is, two of the three parties have been trying to get a deal for years. One has poured enough sand in the gear case to choke a JT-8. And now that they see none of the grand get rich quick schemes are gonna bear fruit and they are throwing everything at the wall.

What I want to know is that if negotiations are kept under wraps and the parties were admonished to do so at the last meeting; how did the supposed deal and info about the TA leak out before the meeting concluded that day? Only two people left the room with their cellphones in warp overdrive. The company and Atlas sat at the table from what I hear.

Polar...news flash...you can't win the integrity battle when you can't be trusted to honor your word.

Anyone with a wit's backround on negotiations knows that a TA's section can also be used as a bargaining chip for other things before the whole deal is TA'd. But nooooooooo...Polar knows better.

Like I said before; look at that stellar deal from '05. Courtesy of an MEC chairman who wet his pants and CAVED IN 36 HOURS into the 30 day cooling off. And when he'd shown his cards and proven he was in no position to bargain, he went back and asked for more!

Bit of history. He cost the Polar crews over $5 grand each (7 for Captains) in signing bonuses, Profit Sharing and and additional 5% pay increase. What is it they say in the Guiness commercial?

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!

Another sad fact. Polar pilots want the airline to be sold. Since your stunt in '05? Nobody wants you. They tried. No one wanted a group of people who demonstrated that they could not play well with anyone and felt the world owed them something. And then turned around and screwed the very people who made it possible to keep your jobs. Because the company was perfectly willing to sit out your strike and let you vaporize. Why? Because your empty scheduled service cost more money than parking the planes. Yep. They MADE MONEY by parking the planes and not having to buy fuel to fly the planes around.

Yet more crack planning by your MEC.

Nothing’s changed. The reputation and attitude precede you.

BH and now BK seem to have no problem flushing you down the drain. After all, there’s a pilot shortage. No one’s available, right? You’ll bring them TO THIER KNEES.

Sound familiar?

BH said he had no problem with 250-300 job losses; “acceptable collateral damage” he called it for him to never wear an Atlas uniform. Wonder how those guys feel.

Apparently BK has no problem either. He seems to forget what the arbitrator said when he crammed the Scope arbitration down BH and Boobin’s throat. That the company has the right to run its business in a manner they see fit.

And Squealer..."substandard industry contract?" After what YOUR guys negotiated in '05, you're whining about "substandard?" And then they refused to negotiate in '06, '07 and '08 when the economy was still strong?

But that's OK. The majors are begging you to come aboard to tell them how they've been doing it wrong also