Originally Posted by
UGBSM
"Just say NO until I get what I want is not a strategy". Not a wise or mature one anyway. You young guys can wait all you want, but with over half the seniority list over age 50 I doubt that will be very popular. You were at least right when you said the worst they can do is park us. Don't want that. Ill take a reasonable contract sooner rather than waste year after year swinging for the fences.
But Im not Babe Ruth like you are. Except you don't seem to realize that you don't have a stick to swing with.
Look around. Nobody gets to strike anymore. PEB is what you can expect. Threat of labor unrest? Inflatable rat? Puhleez.
We have an opportunity to make solid gains if we are realistic. Fortunately the majority of Delta pilots are sensible about these things, because the majority have been around long enough to see many, many, contract negotiations.
I'm not interested in holding my breath until I turn blue. That didn't work when I was 0-5, and it won't work when I'm 5-0.
Ok. So we've established that you are officially a DALPA cheerleader.
You want reasonable gains now vs. fighting for what we've given to this company for the past 12 years to help them get to where they are financially right now. They want to give 5 Billion to stock buy backs to boost the share price but they don't want to give 1 billion back to us in contract gains as a thank you for your continued hard work?
Well I say, you are entitled to your position....but so am I. I've been here 15 years and have 21 years left...if I stay to 65. This is the first and last chance to get back even 1/10th of what we've given and you want me to be happy with your definition of reasonable? As TSquare said, there are 5 or 6 or 1000 different definitions of what is reasonable. And I'm certain my definition of reasonable is quite different than yours.
You go tell your masters that if this contract isn't ground breaking, some changes are going to occur with regards to our union representation.