Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Agreed; that MEC breached its fiduciary duty to the pilots it represented. It was under the heavy influence of "outsourcing is good." Who knows, I think Moak had a handshake deal to facilitate the Compass give away and the 76 seat grievance which allowed more airplanes to arrive just in the nick of time to replace us. These days the ugly business of selling junior members' jobs is done out of sight.
I have much higher level of confidence in our current Reps than their predecessors. It is unfortunate that this MEC must now pay for others' representational malfeasance.
Helicopters aside
I totally disagreed with the action, and saw it as a limited opportunity to force the section 1 limits down and recapture flying if we would have decided on that path. Fact is the MEC did one thing that most people miss; they went out of their way to remove any conflict within the MEC or ALPA structure representing the CPS pilots and the DAL pilots. Going forward the way it was structured, all of these conflicts many people speak of would have held water since the attorneys assigned to DAL would have been working for the CPS pilots as well. In is logical to submit that at some point our wants and goals may have diverged if the lists and contracts would have remained separate.
The other option that many of the pilots favored was folding the CPS pilots in and that would have resolved the conflict as well. A few want to point out that this would have left pilots without jets, but the fact is this pilot group expected the RJ limits to be pulled down as well, removing that possibility.