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Old 06-17-2013 | 11:29 AM
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From: Boeing Hearing and Ergonomics Lab Rat, Night Shift
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Originally Posted by Jack Bauer
Two wrongs don't make a right. Guys, the single best thing anyone can do here is take a long hard look at the elements you and I have control over (ie voting on contracts that allow more productivity and having a union that refuses to be a scope hawk). DALMD88FO, your group took the worst beating and continue to do so. Losing your job while others picked up time and hundreds of 50 seat RJ's operated by non Delta pilots ramped up had to hurt (all the while you scrambling to figure out how to feed your family).

The more recent hires...it sucks for them too (just not as bad is it did for you). Listen, the company will try another scope sale. They will target the more senior guys and koolaid drinkers. That is how they get these things to pass. If both of you guys and all of us want to prevent more stagnation (as the company fails to replace retiring pilots, gets more productivity and keeps throwing bones to large RJ pilots, JV partners, Code Share partners, Virgin Atlantic, GOL, Aeromexico...etc) then stop the madness. Hold your unions feet to the fire and for the love....quit voting for contracts that further suffocate your career as a Delta Air Lines pilot.
Ding Ding Ding!

And just to put a finer point on it:
I finally decided to do something about it. I set up a recurring pay deduction to the ALPA PAC. Before all y'all start going off on the usual ALPA vs DPA stuff, consider that the only thing that matters to anybody in DC is money. Everything else is secondary.
It's not right, its not good but that's just how it is...

So we can sit on the sidelines and lament an unfair system or we can pool our resources and affect some change.

I finally put on my big-boy pants and will be putting my money where my mouth is...

Cheers
George