Originally Posted by
tsquare
Nope... you're right. ALPA has figured out the best way to do EVERYTHING, so who in the hell am I to try to think of another way to do anything? But of course DAL would go out and buy a 767 that they cannot fill.. requires MORE flight attendants... and everything just to screw the pilots... but typically, when anyone questions the way the "best" does things, float the furlough argument, and that will get everyone back in line.
I'm not even gonna threaten ALPA with doing anything if they get this stuff wrong, because I know that is impossible since they have the best lawyers, "volunteers" and negotiators there are. Besides, when the time comes, it will be too late. So we are stuck with the "best" association there is... (And before you say it, no.. I have not sent in a card... yet) Your arguments are always beyond reproach, you know exactly what 12,000 guys want... truly an amazing organization and I am lucky to be able
to pay to be a member. That is why they are so good at all of this. I will go back to my coloring books and speak no more of this. Now PG, get your brainiacs to fix my f$@*^# retirement... oops.. too late.
I hope the whale pays $600/hour, because that is the only way anybody else is gonna make any money... Good luck Carl.
Hi Tsquare,
I (think I) agree with you. I'm cynically optimistic with our current union. But I swear, If the reps come to us, the membership, with anything less than an opener of approximately a 50% raise, PLUS improvements in scope, I'm sending in my card to DPA, and getting vocal WRT supporting same. If the negotiating strategy is 15-25% payraise, that is merely a continuance of a bankruptcy contract. Our union had better get this right, the first time. By all accounts, anybody on this property >15 years (12 year payscale), captain or Jr wide-body copilot, has given the company approximately 300K in wages over the last 6 years. Enough of bankruptcy wages & contracts.