I've got nothing that you would not have already thought of.

Could a NMB complaint be made that this is a unilateral change in pay and working conditions and thus a violation of status quo? Might be a reach, but postage is cheap. I'd think ALPA would be the pilots' friend on this one. Resolution by acclimation at the next LEC meeting if the MEC does not find sufficient motivation on its own?

It has been my experience (although I do not understand how it works) that quite a few express employees get positive space when flights get tight at Delta. At the end of the day management does have an interest in seeing that pilots end up at the same place their airplane is. As stated in an earlier post, park an RJ on a first flight and the phone is going to start ringing somewhere.

With network and marketing playing musical RJ's every single month, no one can realistically expect a family to move around the country to keep up. Often these are very temporary assignments. No other business (aside from migrant farm workers) expects this of their employees. This is one area where I hope the new ATP rules will increase the value of the pilot to their employer.