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Old 07-04-2011 | 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by alfaromeo
All right, here is a quote straight from the DPA website:



So even DPA knows that the basis of your contract is the financial condition of the company that you work for. If you are going to negotiate, then you have to start with an accurate picture. If you pull out some propaganda from a flyer that is meant to persuade other pilots to accept a bad seniority integration, then you might as well ask the negotiators to put on a clown suit. You have to have credibility both with the people you are negotiating against and with the NMB that has the power to suspend your negotiations indefinitely.

So, everyone would like more money and more time off. Get over yourself and realize that everyone has the same goal, it is just that to accomplish your goal, you can't act like an idiot and expect any results. Maybe that will give some brief moment of Zen on the internet to spout off how tough you are, but in the end I want more money. Losing your head and making a fool of yourself is not the way to get it. Period.

So I don't know who you are, but you have convinced me that I don't want you running the show. Emotional rants will get me nothing.

This kind of propaganda reminds me of being a new hire at DAL when crew scheduling comes in and shows you how the one captain is successfully doing "Rolling Thunder". They spun it in such a way that I could expect that as the norm... as a new hire on reserve.

However, I have many good friends at SWA and they certainly make more than I do with more days off.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that while their memo to the tranny guys looks like pure propaganda the fact still remains that my buddies at SWA still make more (way more on reserve) and enjoy more days off.