I had never heard the name Lee Moak, until he was elected as our new MEC Chairman. This was during bankruptcy in 2005 (?). I called the DALPA office to ask W. T. F. were they doing, changing horses in mid stream. Some of the conversation I had with RH I detailed in a post above.

Lee had formerly been the Executive Assistant to Bill Brown, famous for being the MEC Chairman in 1986 when we got the B Scale.

"B Scale Bill" became his nic-name. But Lee worked for him later, in the 90's when Bill Brown became our MEC Chairman...again. I don't think Lee was hired until about 87 (or 88?).

In 2004, JM was the MEC Chairman, a DFW based pilot, and had the support of the 3 DFW reps. There was an regularly scheduled MEC chairman election coming up, and like magic, the DFW base was closed the month prior to the election.

The vote for Chair was going to be close, but without the 3 DFW reps being able to vote, Lee Moak won, barely. Lee, like his mentor B scale Bill, was a management appeaser. His view of Labor was that we should work with management to solve problems, rather than fight with them, like at Eastern Airlines or NW.

After we were screwed by management, twice, in LOA 46, the 32% pay cut to stay out of bankruptcy, then going bankrupt anyway, and the BPL which was supposed to protect our DB plan, even if they did file BK...and then they said it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. So JM was not going to give the company another nickel in concessions. That's why the LM Cabal replaced him.

They were scared that Delta was going to liquidate if we didn't give them another pay cut.

LM did give the company another 15%, in LOA 51, and we've been trading QOL, Scope, Profit sharing, and other items for measly 3% pay raises ever since.