Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Kindly consider this a response to FTB's point as well.
Just Council 44 is larger than FedEx. We have a highly functional political machine and there is a reason other airlines borrow from the ranks of Delta subject matter experts. We run ALPA; to the extent we want to.
Our largeness doesn't mean anything when it comes to electing an ALPA president as you well know. We don't run ALPA any more than JetBlue runs ALPA.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
However, those who perceive gain from selling other Delta pilots' jobs are given the convenient out of pointing at ALPA National, when in reality ALPA National's role was a ministrative authorization of our bargaining.
You're sure right about that. But to change it, it means we'd have to go to war with ALPA to relinquish their financial grip on us. I'm all for a war with them if that's what it takes...I just wonder if you really are.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
No regional airline has even crammed one down on the Delta MEC, ever.
What? We just had a preferential hiring agreement crammed down on us and our MEC wasn't even spoken to about it.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
As much as a change in recognition would bind our management, it would bind our MEC into greater transparency. Our politicians would have to take greater ownership of scope positions and negotiations.
Exactly right. When do we go to war?
Carl