Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Raptor,
I'm curious. Hypothetically, if you had taken a 42% pay cut 10 years ago and were currently 34% below the buying power you had back then, and your company had fully recovered several years ago and was now making record profits in the billions, would you expect something from ALPA stating an objective of restoring your buying power back to some semblance of what it was, or would you be okay with a generic statement about improving pay (which could be satisfied with a 1% pay increase)?
I can't imagine the pain the process and hits to your livelihood that most all of you have gone through with the bankruptcies. I would be hopping mad at seeing the give-backs that I would have had to make, then seeing executive pay rise and the bonuses they get. The RLA system and bankruptcy process is biased very much against the individual worker/pilot.
That being said, I would think that I would expect only as much as the pilot group would be willing to demand--and I am not in a position to gauge that at Delta. The company wants a 50.001% ratification because any more than that and they think they've given too much. I would think if you've been loud and clear to your union, I would expect as much increase in benefits as you've told them you need--otherwise they couldn't get something ratified? Therefore, you either trust in the leadership you have elected or you don't.
And, that's the crux of what I see in these Delta threads on APC: there at least two major "camps" or "parties" of pilots at Delta. Which is the larger "party" I don't know. And, I don't know if the Delta MEC leadership is a minority or majority "party" in power at the moment?