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Unless the automatic yes voters can be reached.
That's going to be the key in this battle. There are unfortunately a large number of Delta pilots who don't attend road shows, who certainly don't read this forum and who are barely aware that we have a new contract, let alone know what's in it.
They have busy lives and don't want to be bothered. Union politics bores them.
They figure they pay a lot of dues to ALPA to worry about all that stuff and they will do whatever ALPA recommends.
Those are the guys who have to be reached.
Had a 747A guy poke his head in the cockpit to say hi the other day. He says, "Did you guys see the rates on the TA! $330/Hr! Wow!" He was almost drooling. I asked how he liked the sick time, EASK swap, LCA bidding, etc. Looked like a deer in the headlights. Said he hadn't looked at any of the other stuff because it probably won't effect him.
As bad as it is, if we don't somehow match the sales job the MEC is doing, it will be a close one.