Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The Reps who received the Delta MEC Chair's ASPEN and talked to the gentlemen on the Delta Negotiating Committee probably know better.
Despite the late attempt at web board management
there are the votes to call a Special MEC meeting on the Delta property. I do not know the Delta MEC Chairman, but I would guess he would want to be proactive and call the meeting himself than have his Reps do it for him.
Interesting. Thanks for your continued investigation into this. Usually, we start most issues on APC by going completely ape-[deleted], and as the facts catch up, most of the conspiracies theories die. This was especially true when the DPA effort was in full swing, because they'd latch on to anything. But that doesn't mean every conspiracy is a theory.
Based on this thread, I enquired with my rep. Sounds as if the information is still being developed by the MEC, so I have nothing useful to paraphrase.
So far, I jumped at the idea of preferential hiring, but that doesn't seem to be happening, and I'm not certain that this deal is conceptually very different from the deals with other carriers, where flying is promised against concessions. The areas that I'm still curious about are 1) whether our MEC was taken for granted, 2) whether meet-and-confer is a one-way street, and therefore a procedure that needs to be dumped anyway, and 3) whether the commitment and sunset provisions really have any weight. As for item 3, it should be discussed elsewhere, anyway.
I'm not completely sure this issue is going to get up high on my radar screen, but again, I think we want to make sure that there is no confusion between Delta and ALPA as to who they deal with, when it comes to flying, not -let me pull an example out of thin air- the Virgin Atlantic pilots.