Originally Posted by
jethikoki
PNCL was FORCED into bankruptcy by DAL because that's what DAL wanted! So as long as you work for the carrier that is doing the forcing its ok. Based on history I am sure DAL and ALPA would have been there for everyone that lost jobs at Pinnacle if they were dissolved or liquidated so unemployment would be short lived right?
Delta did not force Pinnacle into bankruptcy. Pinnacle management underbid GoJets, SkyWest, Expressjet, Mesa / Freedom, and Eagle to obtain their flying in 2010/2011. Jerry Atkin said it plainly enough, "at those prices we lose money." With Pinnacle's bid they obtained the the "best of the best" title from GoJets from Delta's very fickle, "what have you done for me lately," express airline management. Pinnacle worked themselves into bankruptcy by agreeing to a contract which hurt everyone else in the industry, meanwhile your group enjoyed short lived raises. Your airline was in bankruptcy because of your airline's management and their greed.
However Pinnacle left too large a hole in the network to vanish and Delta had just committed to somewhere around 2 Billion in new NextGen RJ's which your pilots are already operating ... the idea that your airline was going away was specious.
Your group did not pause for a minute when they negotiated to
take the preferential interview provisions which existed to benefit ALPA members who had actually lost their jobs (ie Comair) and give these provisions to your senior six figure earning employed Captains, so that you could enjoy progression into the bright shiny new equipment your agreement committed to you.
I am against my union being manipulated to take help away from those who actually need it and trade it for concessions so you enjoy progression.
Originally Posted by Delta Pilot Working Agreement
12. The Company will offer preferential interviews for employment to airmen employed by carriers (whose airmen were represented by the Association) at the time those carriers ceased operations, subject to the Company’s objectives for diversity and experience among newly hired pilots and subject to Section 1 D. 11.
1 D 11. The Company will fill a minimum of 35% of the aggregate of all positions in Delta pilot new-hire classes in each trailing twelve-month period (to the extent airmen are available) with ALPA-represented airmen at Delta Connection Carriers, subject to such airmen meeting the Company’s competitive hiring standards, and subject to the Company’s objectives for diversity and experience among newly hired pilots. Airmen who flow up pursuant to LOA #9 and LOA #10 count toward satisfaction of such minimum percentage.