Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

It's a great question. It would be far better for our union officials to be paid by union dues for EVERYTHING they do regarding representation of the members. That is currently not the case. When these guys drop trips for union work, this flight pay loss is paid by Delta management per our contract. Many of them drop every trip and haven't flown the line in a long time. All flight pay loss paid out by management should go out to all pilots as increased compensation, then our dues should be raised by the exact same amount. This way union guys would still get their full flight pay loss, but that money would be coming from the pilots they represent...not management.

The main issue here is our union is doing their level best to hide this stuff. They are incensed that it is even brought up as a topic because they don't want line pilots to know that many unelected MEC bureaucrats are making C2K level compensation while the rest of us are working under bankruptcy rates plus COLA.

ALPA knows they have a problem here, but they don't think it's quite bad enough to vote in the DPA...thus they continue to stonewall and hide.

Carl