I care about our union. In the past it has done a lot of good and made this profession what it is.

Starting in the mid-1990's it changed to a much more self-dealing, secretive and at times self-destructive organization. During this change it has wrestled with it's grass roots membership and it's managing documents.

Here at Delta, we are in the big house where we allegedly enjoy the benefits of outsourcing our labor to lower paid pilots. As a result many of us believe we benefit from the arrangement.

Some of us have seen both sides of outsourcing and we believe to the core that it is wrong for a labor union to facilitate the sale of its members' jobs while liquidating the hard fought standards of the profession.

As Delta hires pilots, more and more of us will have seen this larger picture. These pilots will insist on change. You can see the transformation beginning with those who have been hired post bankruptcy. (The Pinnacle guys, being veterans of these battles will probably be quite outspoken on the issues)

Just as the previous generation rightly fought the unfairness of B-Scale, we will fight the unfairness of outsourcing.

Eventually, we will have our day.