Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Sailingfun can correct us if this is mistaken, but the company can fill positions not posted, especially when there are displacements.
Same law applies: bid what you want, want what you bid.
It isn't nice to displace off of airplanes and then massage the numbers to make it most efficient for the company, but everyone drug "constructive engagement" out by the blast fence, beat the stuff out of it, and left it for dead. Then a paving crew failed to see the body there and it's buried under 30 feet of steel reinforced concrete and was only rumored to have ever existed.
From a labor relations perspective, we are Northwest Airlines without Doug Steenland's penchant for candor.
This post is more about the demise of "constructive engagement" than anything else. Well, let me give you a perspective from a line puke who has been here thru the entire span of "constructive engagement."
When it first started under LM I was all for it. Something needed to be done and, IMO, it was the right strategy at the right time. It worked well for quite awhile. The problem is that, over time, instead of a two way street, it became a oneway street (from a line pilots perspective). It just seems like, for the past few years, Dalpa has bent over backwards to solve a lot of managements problems with solutions that had/have a negative impact on the pilot group and received little in return. Or at least nothing of like value.
Even though I disagree with a lot of rhetoric from the just say no crowd, they do have one valid point. This IS the most profitable time in Airline history, especially for Delta. I'm pretty sure the average line pilot realizes this and wants a bigger piece of the pie that the company is VERY unwilling to give. I don't believe the previous MEC make up would fight for the pilot group. I base this judgment on TA-1 being sent out for ratification. To get what we want/deserve, well, it's gonna be a fight. I don't retire until towards the end of 2023. I suspect I have voted on my last contract. So be it.
Denny