Originally Posted by
JungleBus
Carl & PD -- OK, yeah, it sucks that they can violate scope at will and just pay us some cash, but I want to know what we could do differently. Any violation of the contract will always go through the grievance and arbitration process. We filed the grievance, we kept it out of the Section 6 process, both good. The subsequent alternatives are settling or going to the arbitrator. We settled for $30M. Would an arbitrator have awarded more? *Maybe,* but then we're still selling scope for money (and the arbitrator might have said $15M while simultaneously giving Sir Richard a handy under the table). What I can't see the arbitrator doing is forcing Delta to up their int'l block hours and creating more widebody vacancies. That's the solution we'd like to see but simply not going to happen. So it was always going to come down to money.
Therein lies the need for better scope language. Immediate and painful penalties.
I think there will be new language. The violation is ongoing past the settlement date May 2015.
Every Delta pilot will open the TA and look at the pay charts.
What we all need to do is read and understand scope. Go over every sentence and if you don't understand, go to a roadshow and ask questions until you do understand. We need 13,000 sets of eyes on our scope. Many more JVs are coming our way. The U.S. is still THE market. We must protect our flying.
We must not repeat the death by a thousand cuts we did with the ever increasing seats on the RJs.
Every deal must capture and protect our international flying.
For those who will never fly international and think this does not affect you, think again.