Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
You mean the long standing group that agreed to a 42% pay cut in an extreme emergency, and then after the emergency was over has acted like that 42% cut was just the "new reality" and we have no intention of ever restoring it? You mean the group that has us STILL today (almost a full decade later and with our company making incredible profits with a good outlook for more of the same) at a 32.5% cut in buying power from where we started?
With a track record like that, how could you not support them?
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Interesting.
Let's talk about risk. Imagine you had an investment and experienced a 42% loss. 10 years later, your "investment" has gone up by 48% from the low. Sounds good on the surface, right? Well, maybe not so much. A 42% loss requires a 73% increase to get back to break even. And that would be on day one. It's now 10 years later. 10 years of inflation makes that 73% number MUCH higher (120% to be exact.)
And the "company" managing this "investment" wants to continue with doing things essentially the same way that produced the above result. Talk about risk!
You can continue to throw out these numbers all you want. The reality is that there is no guarantee that DPA will achieve the numbers you continue to post. And if they ever throw their cards, and somehow win, I can't wait for them to post that restoration is their goal. And then when they fail to achieve it, you can continue to beat this drum at them. Once you manage to show an independent union that has successfully recouped their BK losses, then maybe you'll have a case. Until then, you're just posting a wish list. I'd live those numbers too, but we live in a world where there are outside influences. Our peers earning ARE considered by the NMB, and they do influence our outcomes.
And how does anyone know that the DALPA negotiators DIDN'T ask for raises to that degree? Simply because those kinds of raises weren't present in the TA? With over 100 exchanges between management and DALPA, I'm sure there were a lot of different numbers tossed around.
BTW, the "company" managing your "investment" successfully negotiated C2K. And 37% of Delta pilots voted NO for C2K. Sometimes, it's never good enough.