Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Compass was a part of our MEC. The converse of your own statement is, "If you are a member of the Delta MEC then you are a Delta pilot, I don't know how else you could look at it."
An obversion which demonstrates the logical error of dividing us from members of our own MEC, regardless of how you characterize the f-NWA design.
Rather than trying to tie together the logical breaks in the line you use to define professional pilots as "barbarians" I suggest the method used to successfully civilize more barbarians than any other, annexation. When we learn to acquire and incorporate our fellow professionals in unity, our numbers, thus our power, grows.
Scope is a leading indicator for bargaining results. If we've learned nothing else out of the last two decades, when we are able to more broadly define who are Delta pilots, we win gains in pay and working conditions.
BB, the term "Barbarians at the Gate" refers to the 1988 LBO of the RJR Nabisco company. It was a famous book (and movie), but maybe before your time. It was about the largest takeover of a company in Wall Street history. The parallel and image I'm trying to create is that of greedy hoards storming the castle to take over. That is, hoards of RJ pilots trying any way they can (think RJDC lawsuit) to get onto the Delta seniority list with their years of service and seniority intact without having to be interviewed and hired in competition with military pilots and the employment market in general.
Saying that you are really a Delta pilot anyway because you have a widget on your jet, it says Delta on your paycheck, you are a "division" of Delta, you are also an ALPA member, etc... is just another way of storming the castle.