Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I am not sure you are reading that correctly. It's a bullet point letter not actual language. Most pilots not living in Minneapolis claim for tax purposes they don't live or work in the state. A pilot domicle is not under most legal definitions a place of work. Claiming you do work in MSP might lead to some unwanted tax effects. I have no idea what Delta's policy on this is however I suspect they have full researched it.
The best option is to go for a me too clause in the contract.
We have pilots living in WI, its only 30mins from the airport. They can and do use family sick leave. The union has defended users of state sick leave in the past.
I think it would be fair and just if every employee had this benefit.
This is not an issue we need to bargain for. Delta has a lot of places of employment in a lot of areas that have family benefits. They will be challenged by 1 of their 80,000+ employees and then change this to a company wide policy. Of course they would like to set the precedent with the pilots first to extract a give. Then the rest of the company will be gifted the benefit the pilots paid for.
See: failed profit sharing reductions