Originally Posted by
iahflyr
What most people don't understand is that the company can only offer a contract valued at a certain amount of money, and I trust that the negotiating team has gotten that amount. If the contract is votet down this, Delta pilots will not get a higher value deal. The company will just move things around and keep the value the same as it is now.
While that might be true, it is also just as likely to not be true.
Management probably will ask the ALPA team what went wrong. It is not like they want to repeat the same effort with the same result. Management will not just ask "how much more?, and open the checkbook. It will be up to ALPA to convince management that they (ALPA) has to really fulfill their responsibility as a bargaining agent and meet the pilots needs, and that the company has to compensate at the appropriate level.
And yes, it will be up to the MEC to come up with the next plan if this is turned down. That is the job.