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Sink r8
I don't know him personally, but he's certainly articulate. I read the PS part twice. I think that's the latest crisis/drama Jerry was trying to promote, but Phil lays it out in a clearer manner.
Essentially, you have to believe that the old language would let us capture the other employees' PS, and that a long-shot grievance would have succeeded. Admittedly, the other language was not written for dual PS pools.
So IF you first make abstraction of the fact we were able to maintain our PS intact (AND the fact you have an overall deal), THEN you can complain that the long-shot payout didn't come through.
So you have Jerry cherry-picking other contracts, and Phil elegantly cherry-picking alternative outcomes.
Essentially, you have to believe that the old language would let us capture the other employees' PS, and that a long-shot grievance would have succeeded. Admittedly, the other language was not written for dual PS pools.
While this would be nice it was never going to happen-ever - even if we did win the grievance.
Even if DAL lost the grievance what would stop them from just giving the money back to the non-contracts? If it appeared that DAL was going to provide the Pilots a windfall and actually pay the same amount of total PS before the non-contracts had their PS reduced the company would simply give that money back to the non-contracts.
That is the flexibility of dealing with non-contract employees. If they knew they had to pay it anyway does anyone really think they would reward the Pilots? Especially if the non-contracts were to see their PS reduction go directly into our pockets.
Scoop