Originally Posted by Check Essential

You guys are still in your Moakist mindset.
The days of career ALPA guys running things and seeing themselves as some kind of junior execs in charge of the pilot department are gone forever. We are labor.
They took our pensions. They are running circles around our scope clause. They gave the other employees a big raise in December instead of January just to circumvent our contract. They called the collapse of Venezuela an ordinary expense. They say our puny grievance settlement for them violating AF/KLM scope was not income. They blow billions on fuel hedges. They spend billions buying other airlines from London to Brazil to China. They waste billions buying back stock but claim they can't afford to pay us? Now they take away deadheads in Economy Comfort. It goes on and on.
How many times do you have to be slapped in the face before you fight back?

Let me spell it out bluntly for you.
The Moak way of doing things is over. If we don't have a contract this summer then we are no longer going to be cooperating with management. They will have declared war on the pilots and we are going to respond in kind.
The bridge to getting a fair contract through "constructive engagement" has collapsed and that road is closed. Management's choice, not ours.

That leaves us with one option. The "traditional route" I believe is how Mr. Anderson put it. Simply stated, that means we have to make it more painful for management to continue their stall tactics than for them to sign a new contract. Its a bottom line economic calculation.

We have to hurt them in their wallets. The old way of doing that was through a strike. The NMB would release us to self help and we would shut the company down. That is no longer a viable option. We are too big. The NMB will never allow a strike at Delta Air Lines. (or United, Southwest, or American. And probably not UPS or FedEx either) If we meekly play along with their game, the NMB will keep us in mediation for eternity.

Therefore we have to find new ways of legally exerting economic pressure.
Organizing the other employees is a unique option here at Delta. It will cost the corporation huge amounts of money and it will destroy their precious control over all the non-contract employees' pay and working conditions.
I think they will give us a contract rather than risk that.

Don't be scared. The money is available. Cannoll and Dominguez and the other old Moakists running ALPA National will either go along or be removed. We are going to drag this union into the new era.