Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
What was the change negotiated by ALPA National to our contract. What is/was the specific language changed? I thought the Pinnacle MEC (probably with Nationals help) negotiated, as part of their bankruptcy contract, to get preferential interviews with Delta. Yes, I know it was negotiated directly with Delta Management and, yes, I believe it sets a bad precedent, but I don't think the Delta Pilots Contract was changed.......or was it and I'm just a DumbA... and don't know it.
Denny
Sorry to punt on this Denny because I'm on an iPhone and I've got to go flying here in a bit. Others have posted the actual document here and it includes the signatures of Delta management, Pinnacle pilots and ALPA national. No DALPA signatures. That document provides for a preference of Pinnacle pilots and a specific number of them. Our current Section 1 has this carve out only for Compass pilots (I believe). I don't have access to Section 1 now, but I don't think the hiring of Pinnacle pilots is anywhere in there...only Compass pilots. With the advent of this document signed by Lee Moak and Delta management/Pinnacle pilots, we now have an enforceable addition to our Section 1 that is not in the current Section 1 contract language that Delta pilots have access to.
The precedence here is eye popping. But more importantly, it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that ALPA is behaving like a national union even though that's prohibited by the RLA. We at DALPA could easily reverse this in court IMO because I believe we'd have the RLA on our side. But not a single rep has come out against this action by ALPA national. Also, remember this was done after we Delta pilots made an extraordinary effort to curb this kind of stuff by electing a large slate of new reps (working within the system).
Carl