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DAL 88 Driver
I've done the survey and the "call to actions."
I can't say that I "regularly" engage my reps because frankly I find that a total waste of my time and theirs. For the most part, they are just going to disregard anything I have to say anyway. I did send them my input for C2015. I also engaged them back in January on the new FAR 117 requirement for clarification on the 8 hour uninterrupted sleep opportunity. (They blew that one big time.) I engaged them on the CDO issue with the FAR 117 TA. And I sent them my input that Lee Moak needed to be recalled after he totally bungled the Bloomberg/Business Week interview and did irreparable harm to our negotiating position for C2015. Of course, most of that basically fell on deaf ears... so why again am I engaging these reps?
As to ALPA PAC... sorry, but I'm not sending money to support any aspect of an organization that doesn't have at its core the objective to restore our profession and our careers back to some semblance of what we all reasonably expected when we got into this profession. And I also don't like the idea that ANY of my money would go to support politics that I think is ultimately damaging to this country.
2.5 out of 4 ain't bad
Believe it or not, my personal viewpoint is not very far off from what you continuously advocate for. I do disagree on how to get there, and prefer our method of realizing gains wherever we find them, rather than going all-in or bust. That said...
To me, constructive engagement includes remaining relevant to the conversation, so we have a seat at the table when the pie is being chopped up. I also think we have been at the table long enough that it creates leverage (to get closer to where you/we want) if we were to say that this time we would like more pie or we may have to excuse ourselves from this lovely dinner.
Our current leverage lies in the fact that Anderson is trading, in part, on our "labor peace." To me, that is a beautiful thing, as it puts the power in our hands to keep that peace. Don't want to spook investors? Share some of that pie when it makes it's way back around the table (April 2015,) and we would all love to keep our backpacks on for another 3 years.
I absolutely want Delta to succeed and continue it's wildly profitable run.
I absolutely expect Delta pilots to share commensurately in that success.