Once again we have an argument framed around a premise of propaganda. First, we have a claim that a TA was reached by the Negotiating Committee with Administration help. Here is what the policy manual states:
Of course the NC and the Administration reached a TA. That is what the Policy Manual charges them to do. What we have is a guy who doesn't like the democratically chosen method of doing business, so when the properly elected officers do EXACTLY what the democratically chosen policy manual tells them to do, it is only corrupt because some small minority don't like it. That is not corruption that is a tyranny of the minority who don't like that they lost elections and so they claim the system is corrupt.
The second claim is that there was insufficient effort put into negotiations. Here is a screen shot from the folder that had our contract language back and forth.
As you can see, there are about 700 files and 66 megabytes of data to cover 28 sections of the contract. That is about 25 separate negotiating positions for each section of the contract. In actuality, some sections only needed a few changes while others had 40 or more different positions. This doesn't include negotiations at the end game which had multiple turns through term sheets or verbal back and forth.
This is how negotiations have been done at Delta for at least 26 years. This how C2K was negotiated.
If you don't like it, get the damn votes and change the Policy Manual. Otherwise, we are not a democracy, we are just being tyrannized by a minority of pilots who can't win a vote and so they resort to propaganda to try to get their way.