Originally Posted by Jack Bauer

You missed the point completely. I think management is doing their job just fine, no conspiracy there....they seem to have played this negotiation perfectly from start to finish (if this contract is voted in). From the brilliant "There exists and an opportunity...." hook they introduced, which the ALPA guys have been parroting from the beginning to selling us on giving up more work rules and trading their rotten produce for an orchard that will permanently source flying that given time could have been turned over to the Delta pilot group.

Again, I have no problem with management doing everything they can to win this negotiation. That is what they are paid to do....keep costs down and maintain leverage, never allowing any one group to increase their bargaining power.

Where I have a huge problem is the union that told us to take the time to fill out a survey that would be used as the blueprint for this contract, not following their own rules, keeping the membership in the dark (they still wont release the survey....I will let you guess why) and now using misleading examples to sell us on what THEY think we should really want.

We were told if we could not obtain what the survey reflected we would not rush the process. We would enter into traditional negotiations. Virtually everything they said they would do they have strayed from and imposed their own will over the will of the pilots. That is not representation.

I get it. You are OK with that. You get a few bucks more in your pocket and are willing to take your chances with further erosion of some key work rules and large RJ outsourcing that will stay with us forever for a handful of used 717's. That is your choice.

My prediction; If enough people buy off on what the DALPA marketing group is selling only to be left with a few sweaty dollars in their pocket and unfulfilled promises, this pilot group will finally get what it needs, albeit a little too late to prevent the damage of this contract we will have to live with for a very long time.