Originally Posted by
Gearjerk
My bad, got you & Scambo mixed up in my quoted responses. (Typing on my iPhone.)
So you think we should just "ask" for a 200% pay raise? Well $h1t Timbo, why didn't the negotiators think of that strategy before?
Dam it, all we would've had to do is "ask" the company, during C2012 negotiations, for restoration & they probably would've given it to our pilot group.
That's an AMAZING strategy, & I think you should join the NC for the next Section 6 negotiations & see how that works out for you.
GJ
I've never been a "just say No" kind of guy. That's not a strategy.
But your willingness for appeasement, in the face of record profits, after gutting our pay and retirement plans to attain those record profits, is not a strategy either, not if you ever want to restore the profession, or reclaim our pay/retirement money now being given out as Dividends.
And as Buzz points out, we are not UAL/CAL or AA/USA.
Someone has to be at the top of the pay/benefits pyramid, I think it should be Delta, not Fed Ex, not SWA. BUT... are YOU willing to strike to achieve significant gains? That's always been the real question. Most Delta guys aren't ready or willing to walk away.
Why not?
Well, what did you think that rocking chair was for?
Delta hires a risk averse personality type, that has been proven over and over. How I slipped through is anyone's guess, the Doc. must have been drunk that day. But if you aren't willing to stand up for yourself, and at least try to reclaim the sacrifices we have made in pay and retirement, then come time to renegotiating our next contract, well, you might as well bend over, again, and say,
"Thank you sir, may I have another?"
3%?
For the next two years?
Paid for by reducing our profit sharing by 33% in the highest profit years?
GMAFB.