Originally Posted by
CVG767A
I've gotta say, I don't care about the contract needs and wants, or the career aspirations of non-Delta pilots either. I hope we use our negotiating capital to improve our quality of life, and you can do the same at your airline. It sounds like you'll be coming over to Delta soon. When that happens, I'm in your corner. Until then, your wish list is irrelevant to me.
Pattern bargaining means we try to get the best deal possible for us; when it's your turn to negotiate, you get to use our contract as justification for a better contract. It doesn't mean that we should negotiate from your wish list, whether you work for Compass, UCAL, or Mesa.
While I can't stand the guy's name (jungle bus....
) he makes some very good points. While its semi-fair to say we only care about DL pilots on the list today, we can't entirely hide behind that. If we could, then we should have no problem with a B scale for all future new hires, right? I mean who cares about them, they are not here. Junglebus (omg I so hate that name) will be at DL so its fair for him to interject his opinion on this. More importantly than that though, he's right about what he's saying. If its really a matter of parliamentary procedure, then I officially yield him the balance of my time.