Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
That was a big error on the part of ALPA's President. Jo Depete did not follow the Admin Manual Section 40. It is my belief he was ignorant of the Admin Manual that he was tasked with administering. Either of the Delta candidates for that job would have been better informed.
The President of ALPA should have never "authorized" the bargaining in violation of the Delta Pilots' Scope language and should not have ratified the conflicting agreement.
The Scope Committee Chairman should have brought this concern to the Delta MEC Chairman (do not know if that happened, maybe it did). The Delta MEC Chairman would have brought this concern to the President of ALPA. The President of ALPA would have saluted smartly and done what he was told by an Executive Board member with 15,000 votes & the defacto support of all the legacy carriers on scope issues - so more than 40,000 (DePete's airline has what, 4,500?). The President of ALPA will never f' with a major's MEC Chairman. Really just a phone call is enough to stop this kind of error in its tracks.
I do know that past Scope Committee Chairman used to have meals with the President of ALPA to protect Delta pilots from this kind of predatory negotiation. Tom Canoll was one of the best administrators the association ever had - which is really important when ALPA bargaining groups are trying to get into the flying performed by Delta pilots.
It's been a few years so I'm not 100% clear on the details, but, this really didn't have much to do with scope, per se. We continued to allow Delta to operate 76 seat aircraft permitted by the Compass LOA after the Compass wind down for whatever reason. During the post covid spool up, we suddenly remembered it was there and objected to them unparking aircraft because we didn't have a flow down. Delta then negotiated a flow up in exchange for allowing a flow down at Endeavor. Delta says, poof, you have your flow down. We can fly them. We filed a grievance that the LOA only applied to Compass, who is now defunct. No new scope language or application was negotiated. Then we lost the grievance in arbitration handedly