referencing post
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/ma...ml#post1315754
Why it matters.
The idea that other pilot groups are cutting deals with Delta management, circumventing our Representatives, has me very concerned. Even if ALPA will tolerate unauthorized bargaining,* we can't abide.
ALPA's Administrative manual states the following, and ethically, it is the right thing to do:
“It shall be ALPA's goal to secure contract language in every ALPA agreement which provides for the preferntial hiring of ALPA Represented pilots displaced by furlough, bankruptcy, shutdown, or strike. In furtherance of this goal, each MEC shall use its bet efforts to secure first right of interview for displaced ALPA pilots.”
We Delta pilots ratified a contract which
respects this Administrative Manual Goal:
“A carrier that operates 70- or 76-seat aircraft in category A or C may do so only if that
carrier and the Company have agreed that the carrier will make offers of employment to
furloughed pilots before any other candidate for hire (subject to a furloughed pilots
completing the hiring carrier’s standard new-hire airman paper work, meeting the hiring
carrier’s standard new-hire airman hiring standards and medical qualifications, satisfying
the hiring carrier’s standard background checks, and successfully completing an
interview). Such offers will be made in pilot seniority order. A furloughed pilot hired by
a Delta Connection Carrier will not be required to resign his Delta seniority number in
order to be hired by such carrier. Preferential hiring rights at Delta Connection Carriers
for pilots furloughed by the Company provided herein will be in addition to any rights to
be hired or to flow down that such furloughed pilots may have pursuant to NWA LOA
2006-10 and LOA #9. The provisions of Section 1 D. 10. will apply to carriers that
operate 70- or 76-seat aircraft for the Company as a result of a merger transaction no later
than one year after the closing date.
11. The Company will fill a minimum of 35% of the aggregate of all positions in Delta pilot
new-hire classes in each trailing twelve-month period (to the extent airmen are available)
with ALPA-represented airmen at Delta Connection Carriers, subject to such airmen
meeting the Company’s competitive hiring standards, and subject to the Company’s
objectives for diversity and experience among newly hired pilots. Airmen who flow up
pursuant to LOA #9 and LOA #10 count toward satisfaction of such minimum
percentage.
12. The Company will offer preferential interviews for employment to airmen employed by
carriers (whose airmen were represented by the Association) at the time those carriers
ceased operations, subject to the Company’s objectives for diversity and experience
among newly hired pilots and subject to Section 1 D. 11.”
Pinnacle's MEC comes along and wants to reorder the preferential hiring or flow
to benefit their senior Captains who already have a job. I read that as a modification to what we've ratified in our contract, an unauthorized change by someone unauthorized to even be at the table with Delta management.
And what is the goal of this change?
To sell a concessionary agreement which lowers the pay and working conditions of pilots who fly Delta passengers with a flow though.
If you share my concern, write your Reps so that can be remedied before this TA language goes out and we have an even larger mess to deal with. Further, I want it made clear, if Delta management wants to sit down and talk to pilot labor, they talk to the Delta MEC.
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(references, the principle of "exclusivity" in the Railway Labor Act, local autonomy Article IV, Section 2 of ALPA's Constitution and Bylaws, authority as outlined in Article XVIII Section 1. *There are numerous procedures specific to Section 1 negotiations which appear to have been violated, but I will await the publication of triggering language, if that's the case here)