Originally Posted by
76drvr
Meet and confer never caused the outsourcing, so I don't follow your logic. I'll keep an open mind, but if the DPA is claiming that it was having RJ pilots at ALPA that caused the outsourcing then that is cheap rhetoric and nothing more. The RJ guys didn't vote on our contract, we did. Delta spinning off Compass, Mesaba and ASA wasn't a union decision and neither was cutting CMR to 44 aircraft.
Meet and confer was my answer to your conflict of interest question.
I agree that the spinoffs of the wholly owned commuters was a business decision made by management to hide debt from the balance sheet as a quasi - lease expense. DALPA certainly facilitated the Compass spin off at a minimum.
As far as Comair is concerned, I just dont get any of that... business decision wise or union wise.
PS, I am not a rhetoric guy. I dont use DPA talking points.