Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Money left on the table is up to RA. He feels he offered a TA that put Delta's overall pilot costs well above the competition. The company can of course afford more. They can afford a lot more.
Wall Street and the BOD however would cruicify RA if he jumped his costs that far above the competition. The question becomes how do you force RA and the company to pay a large premium over other airlines for pilots. We have been told on the forums the leverage we had but so far none of it actually seems to exist.
The RLA and anti labor judges handcuff us. Anyone with two touching brain cells can read and understand the positions the NMB is taking. They are about as far from labor friendly as you can get. No one on here has shown me a method to overcome that and put more money in my pocket then the path we have taken working with the company.
The performance of the airline is due to the pilots leaning forward and making it happen every day. When morale drops so will the stellar performance. This won't be an organized job action just the natural tendency of the disenfranchised. Show up, minimal effort, collect the check, go home, repeat... J.D. Power couldn't be further away than it is now. The next 11 months will need to go flawlessly even be in the running.
"Hello, welcome to Mc Donald's may I help you?" can be said as a rote mono tone barely intelligible utterance without eye contact while texting on a phone or with their full attention, a smile and a willingness to listen to get the order right the first time, not having to ask 3 times. See the difference? Either way the job gets done but the customer service makes the difference.