Originally Posted by Check Essential

I don't have the same abilities as you to produce slick graphs and tables, but here's the bottom line for me :

I think Moakism and constructive engagement worked OK to get us through bankruptcy and the merger. I also think that since then, management has taken advantage of it and has been playing Moak and his supporters for patsies.
DALPA is now Richard Anderson's poodle. So much so that he feels free to boast of it publicly. It is astonishing that he can tell investors that labor risk has been eliminated at Delta Air Lines and the union doesn't make a peep.
If that's your idea of adapting to the new era of labor relations then your naivete knows no bounds.

The various LOAs we've signed since the merger have been completely one-sided.

And then Contract 2012 was the final straw. We were manipulated by management and the Moak people into signing a fast deal with all those concessions and only COLA raises because Anderson knew the enormous profits that were coming. He didn't need a fast deal because of some "fleeting opportunity" about RJs. He and ALPA needed it because they knew in another six months the pilot group would never have accepted a concessionary deal with cuts to profit sharing and increases to productivity, etc. etc. Not while the cash was flowing in torrents.
We were had.

Moak's methods no longer work. It is time we got up off our knees and told the whole story. The Moakists are being "constructive" while management is eating our lunch.
A huge portion of these record profits are OUR MONEY! Our pensions and our paychecks have been transferred to the corporation. Its time to get some of that back.