Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Gloopy,
Why would management do that when the Pinnacle pilots negotiated and ratified that pathetic contract? It passed by a good margin.
The SSP violated our Section 1 D12 & 11. The thing was never negotiated legitimately to begin with under ALPA's Admin Manual. Now that everyone see the mess that was created it could be the politics have changed enough to kill it with fire as we should have done when our MEC first read about this deal with Delta management in the news papers.
I'm not saying they will do this. In fact, it goes so hard against their DNA (cheaper regional pilot cost by any means necessary) that I don't think they will proactively change it. But I brought up the option in response to people saying DL was desperate to create some exclusive way to entice the entry level of the industry to come to that particular regional in the first place, but most importantly to stay. I pointed out that its going to take a lot more than that. If they think that turning a real and tough interview that requires a ton of preparation into a rubber stamp so as to entice thousands of pilots to stay at a regional with a bottom feeding contract, they will not be successful. Not even close.
As for how their current contract came about behind the scenes, I agree with you and I don't like it one bit. I support whatever legal means we have to invalidate every [vault] letter of it that could even potentially interfere with our sovereignty WRT DL flying and ALPA procedures in general.
As for any potential political shift, I hope you are right. I'm not hearing a peep about it though.