Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
We just received a fairly detailed Chairman's Letter about this.
I'm confident that this is definitely not "struck work." It's an upstart union trying to takeover from BALPA (hmm, sounds familiar...) BALPA is their CBA and has not condoned any job action.
Think of it this way. If DPA won an election to represent Delta pilots by a 70/30 margin but Delta management refuses to recognize DPA and instead keeps recognizing ALPA instead. That's what's happening with the VS pilots.
Labor law is different in the U.K. and unions are formed & recognized based on card check instead of elections and of course it's much easier to call for a work action.
To me it seems like this is a little payback to Delta management by ALPA for the contract recently negotiated.