Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
That just proves you hear what you want to hear. If this had been signed by anybody else today you would be screaming bloody murder.
No I wouldn't be. C2K restored Delta pilots' buying power from decades earlier. If you do THAT and do it in a timely fashion, now the time value of money has meaning. If it's just COLA increases, then you're using the time value of money argument to hide the fact that our "union" doesn't wish to expose itself to any labor risk whatsoever. Which is exactly what RA (our MEC chairman) said. I would have been upset about the scope giveaway however, and for that I would have voted NO.
Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
The contract was late. It didn't have full retro. It allowed a massive scope concession on RJ (my issue with it). LOA 46 had a bigger affect on me than most of these other past gone issues that are being rehashed today.
I wasn't here then so I don't know.
Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
He emphasizes that the time value of money is more important than anything in achieving gains now and also that work rules aren't retroactive and that working with management to achieve these things and making ourselves relevant is also important. He goes on to say how important we are in pattern bargaining and points out that the other airlines are behind us (again).
See above. TVM alone isn't a strategy. It's an excuse.
Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
This forum has vilified those who wrote the same things in 2012.
No it's not the same thing when you're comparing it to C2012's COLA increases fully funded by concessions in other areas.
Originally Posted by
bigbusdriver
The only difference in this letter espousing the value of time and money and working with management is that C2012 was six months early and C2K was too late and a dollar short.
Lots more differences than that bud.
Carl