Originally Posted by
Karnak
It's too bad we can't video tape ALPA roadshows. It would be fun to replay the reactions from a lot of guys when the Profit Sharing terms were presented in 2009. At the presentation I sat through, several of the present-day Donut Dealers were loudly promising that we'd never see a penny of profit sharing, at that it was all of lot of wasted negotiating capital.
Now you'd think it was the Holy Grail of compensation.
A stunning flip-flop.
Who were these people you're attempting to paraphrase?
I had a similar experience with an ALPA rep I flew with several years ago. I was new to the company and was just trying to catch up with all that was going on around me. But I do remember being struck (not in a good way) with his idea of increasing profit sharing and not pushing for pay increases as a form of compensation. But I don't hold DALPA accountable for this individual's philosophy, nor believe it was a flip flop of the organization since it was not advocated by the group as a whole.