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Old 03-10-2012 | 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyZ
Honest question - what harm would be done by giving the membership the exact term sheet presented to management AFTER management has seen it? To whom are we "showing our hand" at that point?
- Management? They'll have ALREADY SEEN IT!
- The Delta pilots? Those are OUR cards. I want to know where we stand!
- The public? I doubt they care very much, and I don't see how this information leaking out would hurt our negotiations.
- Wall Street? That's the only place I could see it having an effect. Perhaps if shareholders see a huge gap, they would expect our labor costs to increase significantly. However, it isn't the job of our union to protect shareholder interests. It's our interests they ought to (and hopefully do) have in mind.

So, I don't want to see a watered down, generalized statement of what we are asking for. I want to know the details, both to give my reps guidance and evaluate ALPA's opening stance. How would that be harmful?
It wouldn't be harmful. It is exactly what occurred with every Section 6 I've been involved with for 32 years.

Carl