Originally Posted by
slowplay
Arbitrators and Courts don't look kindly on willful contract violations. The Delta pilots are still under an injunction from a 2001 Appelate decision, and the damage decision was overtaken by the settlement of C2K. Group grievance decisions have awarded Delta pilots substantial amounts of money from Delta contractual violations in the past, and courts have ordered both companies and unions to pay up. Remember the APA fine payable to AMR management in the 1990's?
That presupposes that DALPA would file a grievance of that magnitude. Today's DALPA is not the DALPA of 2000. Today's DALPA is a partner with management...at all costs.
Carl