You know you just seem unable to engage in reasonable debate.

But if you want to play that game, how about this...you have no more concept of what it takes to work for the pilot group via union work and doing your best to advance the pilots' collective good than a toddler has of nuclear physics--however you DO know what it feels like to get a perverse adrenaline rush from juvenile keyboard insults.

That said, you are correct about the SD memo--it was a blatant violation of the contract. In fact I was shocked when I first read it because it was so blatant and in our face--actually quite unlike how DL management has behaved in the past.

Having actually done union work in the past--keyboard missiles don't count, by the way--I can tell you unequivocally that in my personal experience the company did not willfully violate the contract. Violations did occur, usually due to schedulers hastily piecing together some trip coverage, or an automation error. In fact we had to fight the company for three months when a computer automation error resulted in a senior pilot getting overlooked for a trip that he should have gotten. Then, even though the software hiccup was not malicious, the company THEN dug in their heels and insisted that there was no harm, no foul. After we finally told the company that this was going to a grievance, they paid up and fixed the problem.

In my experience that was the extent of their maliciousness--at worst a willingness to believe that they were right and no violation occurred, even when the evidence was that one did in fact occur.

But other than the SD memo--which was a bad move--the company truly doesn't deliberately violate the contract--at least until now. I acknowledge that we have a lot of NW management types now running the show, and a year or two from now I might be the loudest decrying management's deliberate violations.