Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Scambo,
Delta needed our help with our scope to pull the merger off. ALPA did leverage our cooperation and did so in a way that avoided furloughs. Management did look at furloughing pilots. Then the economy, fuel prices, North Atlantic flying, and Japan's earthquake made a bad situation even worse. If you look around the airline, other employee groups have been cut. The provisions ALPA negotiated kept our junior guys on the job.
This is a course reversal for me. I thought we would have a furlough based on the numbers. Glad I was wrong and our MEC's confidence in what they negotiated was right.
Our next task is Contract 2012. I want to help you & Carl get a better contract. Will you guys help me? We need to stand together.
Bar;
I dont have a problem with politicians (alpa) taking credit for something - even if they didn't actually do it. That is what politicians do.
The decision not to furlough rests squarely on the shoulders of, and can only be credited to, 1 former furloughee who, through his ability to convince fltops not to furlough, was successful in keeping people off the streets - inits BW - thank him next time you see him.