Originally Posted by LivingTheDream

I have sent the following email to my reps and the mec. These are my mins and only mine. I would strongly suggest that all posters and lurkers update with their own lists, or be satisfied with what ever comes...

H,

After the historic concessions we have given (the greatest being the loss of our pensions, which will be life altering for most of us and will continue to save Delta billions going forward) I cannot accept anything less than what I have listed.

I am sending my list with my reasoning for each item.

1. Not one penny change in profit sharing. Period. Not below 2.5B. Not above 2.5B.

(Profit sharing is compensation for the draconian concessions of the past 10yrs… the greatest being the loss of pensions. It is not part of any pay formula going forward.)

2. 2004 rates on day one plus 5% per year thereafter.

(This is entirely reasonable, considering that this doesn’t even include 10yrs of inflation.)

3. Vacation/training days pay 5:15/day.

(Recapturing some of those lost years of inflation.)

4. 3% DC day one plus 1% per year thereafter.

(Recapturing some of the lost pension.)

5. No minimum hours per month.

(Allows the scheduling flexibility/individual choice to offset the ever increasing ALV’s, and other productivity “improvements”.)

6. Increase unverified sick leave to 200hrs.

(It is a complete embarrassment that I am entrusted with thousands of lives each year, yet I cannot be trusted to call in sick… my doctor could not believe a person at my level of responsibility was being required to obtain a “sick note”.)

7. Greatly decrease jv/code share/rj flying. Return flying to Delta Pilots.

8. Raise our medium wide body rates to match/exceed American’s large wide body rates. It is obvious Delta will not become a large wide body airline and very few of us will ever see the 777 rates.

(American has over 120 a/c at their top rate, United has over 70, we have 18!)

9. No concessions to scheduling. Period.

(I don’t think my health can take any more “efficiencies”!)


Those of us that have been here for a while, have sacrificed greatly to allow Delta to survive/thrive. It’s long past time for Delta to reward us for those sacrifices. If the company wants incremental increases with incremental concessions, I say absolutely no! How much have our executives had to “give back” for each one of their contract improvements?... I’m guessing not one thing. Let’s “wind the clock”. Ps/time is on our sides… I can easily live for the next years under the current contract.

We are in an unprecedented era… 4B, 6B, 10B profits… all while paying our debt down to nearly zero. Delta has lost billions in hedges, bought back hundreds of millions in stock, paid tens of millions to exec’s… it is our time.

Also respectively,

John
7ERA