Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
So, you are saying we simply made it easier on ourselves?
Ferd,
Again, we see saw our MEC creating a "conflict of interest." It is no wonder the DPA has built its platform on "conflict of interest." Our MEC handed them the lumber and the nails.
The best fix for a "conflict of interest" is unity. When you are ONE, there is no one else to conflict with.
Yours is an excellent post. The NWA screwed up with the creation of the off seniority list group, but they at least left a bridge to pull them across later. My MEC blew the bridge.
Nope, and you're using the unity word inappropriately.
Compass pilots were represented by the Delta MEC. They had a Delta MEC appointed "coordinator." There were no Compass LEC's or direct election for those non-seniority list pilots that had potential flow-up rights to Delta.
There was no way to force Delta to integrate the CPZ seniority list with Delta's list.
There was no way to force Delta to modify the Delta PWA for desired scope changes.
Even had there been a way to either force CPZ pilots onto the Delta list or to modify scope, there was still the possibility (probability) of an asset sale.
That's the reality with which the Delta MEC had to act. Saying "unity" until you're blue in the face won't change that reality.
It's my view there was no bridge, only the illusion of a bridge. It's my view that the representation structure afforded CPZ pilots created second class citizens inside the MEC structure. I understand you disagree. In all the years of debate you haven't provided a what I would consider a path to successful "unity," just the slogan. Tell me how it would work in the real world knowing that there was at least one CPZ pilot that didn't agree with your view of the world.