Originally Posted by
JustNarced
So then you are happy with the direction the airline has been heading over the past 4 years? What exactly is "fair?" Who decides fair? Fair to who? So you voted to authorize a strike but then don't really want to? Did you think the MEC was kidding? If negotiations turn in a favor after this vote then clearly Ed realizes we very well could strike. If he truly believed we would never strike then why change the play after 4 years of dragging feet?
I have yet to fly with even one pilot who channels your anger (thankfully). Don't get "willing to strike" confused with "eagerly looking forward to it." I think of a strike like using the atom bomb. No one WANTED to use it in 1945 or any other year. In extreme and rare circumstances it was necessary. I am WILLING AND ABLE to strike. I don't WANT to. You DO want to.
And as for your "more than anything, I want Ed gone" comment from an earlier post--get real. I don't like him at all. But to anyone other than pilots and mechanics, he is nearly deity on the Delta property. He says all the right things that the rest of the employee group loves, hands out "Eddie Bears" and they all think he walks on water. Don't think for one nanosecond that we will have one molecule of support from anyone else outside mechanics and perhaps a few hard-nosed former NWA flight attendants. Telling the BOD "the pilots want Ed gone" will merely elicit a chuckle and "duly noted" response.