Originally Posted by
76drvr
Carl, a strike wasn't on the table at the time we negotiated the Delta Dot. That happened about a year later if I recall.
You're trying to move the goal posts by discussing delta dot. This is what you said earlier:
Originally Posted by
76drvr
We pattern bargained off of UAL. Got UAL +1% when the NMB released us into a thirty day cooling off period. I think we were about two weeks from an authorized strike.
This discussion is about how you actually USE the leverage you might have at any given point. The Delta MEC got those record rates because of your willingness to use the ultimate weapon, not because you appeased Mullin. Leverage is worthless without a strategy to USE that leverage. Our current MEC does not have that desire and Richard knows it. That's why Richard was able to say with such confidence that labor had been taken
completely off the table at Delta. Not a single member of the MEC has disagreed with Richard's statement.
My point in all this is to get people to stop talking about leverage because it's putting the cart before the horse. First you must develop a strategy to actually USE the leverage. Our MEC is consistently silent on any methodology to USE leverage. That's because our union has been successfully co-opted by Delta management. What Richard learned best while working for Frank Lorenzo is that you can't win against a union by attacking them head on. He's learned that you remove the labor risk inherent in a union, by owning the union.
Carl