Originally Posted by
YAKflyer
Great story....thx for sharing.
BTW I totally agree with you about Delta's priorities with cash. Now they're saying they are going to give a percentage of their profits to charity. Seems like they should start with their own.
It's sad JM was ousted to be replaced by Moak. If JM was chairman at the time, I do not think there would have been anyway the termination of the DB plan would have happened. If JM has anything it's backbone. I am prejudiced though...we go a long way back. I was a Captain rep for C2K and one of the 49ers....do you remember the law suit? Anyway, John and I are still good friends. In fact when I heard he was taking on the job again I offered to run an intervention on him.
I agree about JM, in fact when it was announced that LM was the new MEC Chairman, I had no idea who he was, so I called the DALPA office to ask why we were switching horses in mid stream. The answer I got from RH (CVG F/O rep then) was, "JM said he's not going to give the company any more concessions (this was between LOA 46 and 51) and the company said they can't get exit financing if we don't give them another 15% pay cut."
I said, "GOOD for John! FK them! WE have already given them ENOUGH!"
Well, it was too late, LM was in charge, and we were giving away more stuff, like our retirement and 15% more in pay.
Oh, I was also a 49'r, one of the 17 line pilots named in the suit, due to a post I put on the ALPA board, about the wh0res who were flying greenslips while Leo was dragging out our negotiations.
I think the line in that post that put me on the list was,
"If you can't live without a greenslip, you are Bushy's Beoch! He already owns you, and you are screwing the rest of us, who are NOT working overtime, and trying to get a better contract!"