Originally Posted by
shiznit
That would be an opinion in bold. The reps and negotiators I've spoken with do not share your sentiment.
Like many of my peers, I'm confident my WANT list is way beyond my reasonable expectation list... Logic dictates that you don't want to undershoot the available leverage, that is the measure of acceptability in my opinion. By a 19-5 margin (21-5 if you wanted to count the MEM reps who had lost their LEC less than a month before the TA), it was determined by the MEC that the leverage had been used to the limit, and that it was up to the pilots to then take the information and decide whether it was acceptable.
I think that more restoration is likely and will happen more quickly when the Company is consistently profitable and we don't have so many of our peers dragging the wages down.
Delta MEC politics (particularly before the latest turnover) tend toward snap salute and fall in line. The dissentors are demonized. I spoke with some that agreed with your posts, and some that didn't. The ones that agreed had little substance behind their justification other than repeating the party lines. Quite disappointed, but considering the sales job that went into the whole thing, not surprising. I disagree with your assertion that it can be extrapolaged from the vote that leverage had been used to the limit. That vote was solely whether it should be put to the masses.
We can enjoy a profit sharing check next year about the same or less than this year, as well as a less than COLA pay bump, while the company will sure enjoy keeping all that extra money in their pockets.
