For those who have never seen our tactics before.
We have just given enough to certain groups to obtain a “YES” vote (55% +/-). Pilots don’t think long term or to better the profession. Our greatest weapon amongst the pilots are their greed and selfishness, that is a given.
We have realized that given a little money in certain areas, the greed and selfishness will take over and the majority of the group will eat the rest. The majority of pilots only look at the money (our “YES” voters) but “The CPG” receives more in productivity where the wording is in our favor i.e. rostering, crew composition, housing. If we are feeling generous we may do it but if law in the jurisdiction the pilot is based does not require us, we will not. This is why we like negotiating with pilots.
We have run the numbers of certain groups and took an educated assumption on the least amount of money to sway that group to a yes vote. We know a vast majority of non-member will vote yes. We take all of this into consideration as to receive a “YES” vote.
The vote will go through. If the “NO” voters win by a small majority, we will go back to the table and offer just a wee bit more to get the vote to sway to our liking.
If the vote comes as a 95% no, we will have to take more drastic measures. Look at our past and see what we have done.
We have a contract in place ready to be mailed out to all involved with a “sign or be fired” caveat. We all know each individual pilot is on an individual contract and we cannot legally change that unless we have “YOUR CONSENT”. We have used “Sign or be fired” before with great success. During that process, we will send out our Pilot Propaganda Machine to spread our news of no upgrades to anyone that votes “NO”. If that scare tactic does not work see below.
We need this Vote moving, as we need a tremendous amount of trainers. We need the “TRAINING BAN” lifted now and never to be repeated. If we have no trainers, we cannot expand and if we cannot expand we will lose market share and if we lose market share we lose money and when we lose money we get a tremendous amount of pressure from the Board and the Board receives a vast amount of pressure from the Shareholder. The Shareholder holds the Board ACCOUNTABLE if “The CPG” does not make money. The Shareholders are watching.
The Board is starting to feel the pressure from the Shareholders so the Board gave approval for money to be spent but as little as possible. If the vote is “NO” then the Shareholders will vastly increase the pressure on the Board to sort this mess out. The Board will give approval to spend a minuscule of more money to sway the vote. The COO has sent his letter of encouragement.
If the vote is still “NO” after the second/third “NO” vote, the shareholder will be furious with the Board and the Shareholders will want “Heads to Roll” at board level.
We at “The CPG” are vey good at keeping our composure and you will never see us blink even when our backs are against the wall. We do everything from a seemingly position of strength to make the other side believe they have no other choice. These tactics work in all our areas of negotiations whether with pilots or any other employee or group.
Over the last 25 years at “The CPG”, we know the pilots do not like to fight for anything and we are counting on this to work this time.
Not one pilot is putting his head above the parapet by not joining our Elite Training Group and the most stressing thing is we cannot single out any pilot individually. Most unnerving. The Training Ban has to go as with Contract Compliance.
Fighting for a decent contract or conditions at “The CPG” is futile. Vote “YES”.
TO OUR BONUSES
The Management