Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I do not get your points. You equate Delta pilot labor to any other vendor that Delta management does a contract with. You go further to state that if Delta wants to do mutually exclusive deals with different pilot groups, none of our business.
You also state senior Captains are going to lose their house, while conveniently ignoring the plight of their First Officers who will be the guys really losing their jobs.
I don't care for the political brand of whitewash used to paint over representational malfeasance. Plain and simple, the Pinnacle pilots did not abide by Section 40 of the Admin Manual. Plain and simple, our pilot group got locked out of the room.
I don't care for it either Bar. I care even less for defending the entity that performs the malfeasance as worthy of being ongoing.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
How can our ALPA be any more irrelevant than to not even participate?
This is exactly what Mr. Moak is trying to show we Delta pilots who threw out his hand-picked MEC Chairman, and elected new reps who ran on returning to a bottom-up representation union.
When Mr. Moak signs the Pinnacle agreement, he will be showing these new insolent reps (and the insolent pilots they "represent") that ALPA national decides what will be in your contract...period. The only question is: Will our new reps go to the mat on this, or will they roll over? If they roll over, spending money on a local chapter of ALPA is a total waste of time and money. Because we will be completely irrelevant.
Carl