Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Sink,
Actually, I am fighting revisionism by telling it as it was.
The RJDC and Lawson's missives were reactions to the 2000 ALPA Board of Directors meeting where the ASA / Comair PID was denied. The reaction came after the action. Obviously, if the ASA & Comair guys had been merged all of that would be Delta's flying and they would be Delta pilots. There would have been no RJDC, or Lawson.
Bar,
Sorry, I was editing as you were answering.
My understanding of that situation is that we met, and offered to work an arrangement, along the lines of a staple, but ASA/CMR wanted to force a ...PID (not sure what that stands for, but to force a declaration of a merger), to trigger the merger policy.
Is this not correct?
There is of course no way that would have been acceptable to the Delta pilots, just as we couldn't agree today, to any combination without a pre-negotiated list. Which would have to be essentially a staple.
None the less, pilots today don't understand why our MEC is against recapture. My post is intended to explain why and explain that there is a logical basis for their actions. They wanted to get rid of B Scale, which is laudable.
I'm not sure they're "against recapture", but I see your rationale, even if I disagree about the RJDC issue. There was also a desire in C2K to get rid of Express. Many pilots referred to Express as a cancer. If only we could have that kind of cancer again! I would be open to creating an operation that brings RJ's in-house, whether it's labelled as "cancer", or "B-Scale", if the pilots were on the list, and our contract. It's a lot better to have tailored work-rules and payrates for smaller jets, than to have them outsourced.
Be my guest for the last word, I have to wrap-up.
Regards,
Sink r8