Originally Posted by
Kingbird87
We got one in 1998. We reversed the B scale misery index American and Delta and United forced on it's younger pilots. We Struck! That's how. We went first. And until C2K, there was never a whits worth of difference in what NWA had vs. anyone else. A LBO figured into all this, and still when faced with adversity, we always manned up and built cohesion and consensus. That is what we are supposed to do.
Your posts are usually better than this. Are you saying we don't know how to "man-up" when faced with similar circumstances?
When I look at how we fared just before, and just after BK, we did about the same. That is to say your end-result looked worse, but you kept your pension, as a consensus-building exercise I assume.
As you said yourself, above, except for C2K, your manning up yielded nothing exceptional. And C2K, of course, changed that. What teary-eyed non-manning-up group negotiated that? This group.
Let's not forget your strike. We were all proud of you, no doubt about it. Except you shouldn't factor out luck. It was explained to me by a North pilot you didn't strike so much as got locked-out, and the company was pre-packaged for sale (Pacific to AMR, I think it was). Planes were getting mothballed. The White House stepped in to let it be known the Pacific authorities were not going to get transferred, and threw some other big rock in management's puddle, and that was that.
This group, the entire Delta group, is just like most pilot groups. We will defend ourselves just as much, or just as hard, any group out there. Period. Want to man-up and build consensus? Start by not making broad, insulting assumptions about your brothers' motives. We're not motivated by fear: we're motivated by the desire to find what works best.