Originally Posted by
gloopy
Just to throw an elbow off the top rope to the deceased equine here, the only thing that's different WRT Pinnacle that I can see is the fact that DL management signed something without our MEC. I share that concern with you. But they didn't sign anything that superseded anything else in our CBA. They basically "negotiated" for scraps directly without us, but they were scraps we separated from our negotating paradigm in the first place. 450 is 450. Who fights it out for those 450 may change, and even if PCL somehow uniquely "locked in" their share of that 450 for 7 years, I think we all know we're not on track union or membership wise to become DCI free in 7 years anyway.
That's how it starts, though. What a lot of pilots don't realize is, that while regionals pilots are not equal to mainline pilots in the flying world, the things management does in court to regional pilots, in the eyes of the law, are equal to mainline pilots. Nobody seemed to care when the TSA pilots got bent over by their management with GoJets, or when the Pinnacle pilots won the grievance about Colgan being an alter ego, but the arbitrator said there was nothing that could be done, and FU to the pilots. So the precedent is set, and this is just recently, that management has a lot more leeway than most pilots think. You can actually win a grievance at the NMB, and there is no mandated action that has to be taken by management. You can ask your ALPA attorney if you don't believe me.