Originally Posted by
Giordano Bruno
Did she say that? She said mediated negotiations would be suspended, right? But there was nothing in DALPA's ask that caused her to declare it unreasonable throughout the entire mediation process. I think there were two negotiating sessions every other week. That's hardly a schedule set by a mediator who thinks the union is "unreasonable."
And there was nothing precluding DALPA and mgmt engaging outside of mediation after the mediator left town. DALPA appears to have underestimated the degree to which mgmt wanted a deal done. Lessons hopefully UALPA will learn without repeating.
She said that Deltas offer was within the zone of reasonableness. If we walked away, nothing previously agreed to would be binding. And she would not be scheduling anything except a status meeting for months. And since Delta had come to the table and negotiated so well already over the past couple years, yeah it could have drug on for a long long time.
Not making excuses, just throwing out what happened.