Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Interesting update I received today via email:
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In the most recent "Touch & Gos" dated 8/11/11, the DAL MEC Communications Committee attempts to deny the existence of regional carrier impact on our contract.
"ALPA previously settled a lawsuit commonly referred to as the "Ford/Cooksey lawsuit." As part of this settlement, changes were made to the ALPA Administrative Manual as approved by the court, designed to strengthen ALPA's ability to negotiate scope. ...
FACT: Full Section 6 negotiations have not occurred since Ford-Cooksey was settled in 2008 and the changes to the Administrative Manual implemented. There is, therefore, no language that could have been affected.......yet.
Read the facts and think about the implications!
REAL FACT: We just did a Joint Pilot Working Agreement which included equity and raises that put us near the top of our profession. A merger is the exact time when scope shenanigans occur and the DPA has been unable to cite any examples of "regional" pilots effecting those negotiations. (Lord knows, I tried to incite them by getting the Compass guys on board)
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
FACT: At an ATL MEC meeting several months ago, Captain O'Malley, MEC Chairman, stated that:
"All changes to scope are off the table."
This statement has two facets, one of which you may not be considering. Captain O'Malley stressed that ALL changes, both negative or positive, are off the table. While he seems to be unwilling to let any further seats go to the regional carriers, he is also saying that he is unwilling to regain any seats from the regional carriers as well.
The writer supposes what Chairman O'Malley meant. I've asked O'Malley to clarify and he told me that he was waiting on the direction given in the pilot survey.
In MY OPINION, the larger constraint is the $30,000,000,000 in deals Delta has signed with the corporations who provide these services. DCI, financially, is a bigger deal for management than our contract. The DCI deals include the whole shebang ... aircraft acquisitions, operations, management and somewhere down the line, pilot costs too. Asking management to cancel a deal may simply be something management can not legally do.
Hence, I want ALPA to focus on PILOTS not airplanes. But, that is another story.
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
1. Participate in the upcoming Contract Survey promised by the MEC in September. In that survey, make all of your desired contract change proposals to the MEC plus this:
"I request the DAL MEC pursue a 20% reduction in allowable regional carrier airframes that are capable of, or currently contain, 70 or more seats to be completed within no later than two years from the date of signing of our next contract."
This reasonable request is well within the capability of the company to comply with, but outside of the capability of the MEC to obtain due to the potential of lawsuits from the regional carriers that will be harmed by this type of maneuver. DPA is aware that regaining flying under DPA leadership will be a process of many steps ....
2. Submit resolutions to the same at all Council meetings between now and the member ratification of the new contract.
3. Go get one more Authorization Card (3,300 DPA Members x 2 = 6,600 which produces a vote) and do away with this nonsense permanently.
Here is the true bottom line: The DAL MEC Negotiating Committee IS REQUIRED pack up and head to National and sit down with all the Negotiating Committees of the regional carriers that serve DAL, PRIOR TO beginning talks with management. They are REQUIRED to "work with each other to develop a consensus on proposals".Read the facts and think about the implications!
Wife needs attention, can not concentrate. Will have to finish later.