Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
The conjecture of how best to maximize the value of our profession. You have an opinion based on your dissatisfaction of our reps' progress so far relative to C2K. Others have a different opinion based on our reps' progress so far relative to our peers.
So everything is relative to our "peers?" You make my point, Alan. Your objective is not to restore the value of our careers but rather to win some kind of pilot contract contest. You know... our careers may be worth 30% less, but by golly we're #1!
If we have no objective... or we have an insufficient or nebulous objective... there's just no way we're ever going to get remotely close to restoration. There's more to it than just pattern bargaining.
Hanging our hat on waiting for some other pilot group to eclipse us by 1% is one of the reasons we are still at an effective 34% pay cut. We need bold leadership that's not afraid to call a spade a spade and that makes no apology for the value of what we do. Sadly, the leadership we have is nothing like that. We need to be leading the charge to restoring our profession, not setting an example that demonstrates we gave up on it.
And I noticed you conveniently didn't answer my question. Here it is again (in bold below). Want to take a stab at it?
Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Is this really so hard? We took massive cuts 10 years ago in an extreme crisis. Today (10 years later), our buying power is slightly worse than it was after the first draconian cut of 32.5% in a desperate attempt to prevent Delta's bankruptcy.
Our industry has been restructured in a way that should result in less dramatic up and down cycles going forward and more sustained profitability. Our company is making literally BILLIONS (with a B) in profits. And we have no stated objective to restore our buying power. And we've acted for 10 years like bankruptcy established a new normal and that we don't ever expect to restore our buying power.
None of the above is conjecture. It's pure fact. Do you really think it's smart to have no stated restorative objective in this situation and to continue acting like we have no expectation of the sort? If you do, then there's just not anything I can do to help you... conjecture or otherwise.