Originally Posted by
seamonster
I have not been reading the forums over the holiday weekend but would like to through something into the pot. In my extended family, I have some people on the management side of labor, big business and not applebees. I showed them parts of the TA and the change from our old contract. They laughed at how little we receive with the leverage we had. They had been casually reading about the Delta news for awhile, because I am a pilot with Delta.
Before all of the YES voters go running to the polls. Talk to people who are not in aviation, both in management and labor. They will give you the correct reality check. Management wins BIG with this one and we, as Mongo would say,” are just pawns in where choo choo go”
Pushing for a 5% reduction n profit sharing should be a pretty good indicator to all that DAL is looking to make a hefty profit this year.
I'm sure there forecast as of now probably puts them just over the $2.5 billion dollar range. The 4% increase in pilot payroll maybe the extra few million to keep profits under that $2.5 billion dollar mark.
That's a jump in profit sharing of $250 million if management makes $2.5 billion or more. I'm not saying the entire business plan is structured around that, but I'm sure it's definitely something they are looking at.
I think we, as pilots, need to cautious about voting this thing in to quickly.
That in itself isn't a reason to say NO, just something to be weary about.
Since I bring that up, what kind of possible timeline, barring a typical section 6 negotiation timeline, could we expect if we vote it down and have the negotiators sit back down to revise the TA?
I have hard time believing both sides will scrap the whole thing without trying to sweeten it a little in hopes to get it through.