Originally Posted by
sailingfun
What some fail to realize is that in conventional negotiations you meet once or twice a month and the company rarely sends decision makers to the meetings. We are meeting 4 to 5 days a week with the principles in the room. We have probably already done the equivalent of two years negotiations at the normal pace.
First of all, this is NOT an equivalent of two years of normal paced negotiations. What we've done so far is about 4 or 5 months worth at a "normal" pace. It's about double the pace that's "normal." Which brings me to point two, which is: Why would that be the case? Our management team has a fiduciary responsibility to minimize costs. What fiduciary duty would our management team be pursuing by
accelerating the pace of negotiations? Are they hurrying to increase pilot costs to the corporation? Or are they hurrying to decrease pilot costs to the corporation?
This is not even arguable it's so clear. Management is hurrying to decrease pilot costs to Delta. To do anything else would put them in fiduciary breach.
What management is hurrying to prevent is almost immaterial. It's only important to understand that they're hurrying to REDUCE costs. That is leverage for us to pursue OUR goals with the TIMIMG being secondary.
Carl