Originally Posted by
tsquare
Funny how you now view LOA 19 as locking ourselves into a box, whereas before you realized you will be receiving all the gains obtained thereby; it was bending over our NWA brothers... And FWIW, I haven't decided on how I will vote yet... not that it's anybody's business. But just out of curiosity, how will you feel about the DAL pilots IF this thing gets voted down and you have to actually have to negotiate with the company for yourself? Will you still want to sing Kumbaya with us?
Hi TSquare,
Probably not. The feeling around here is that JPWA corrected a mistake, and that MAYBE we were all pulling from the same side of the rope. Moak and company preached on and on that LOA wasn't about leverage or getting the upper hand or selling the NWA guys out, and followed through with the JPWA. Thus SOME semblance of trust was starting to develop.
Was it perfect? No. I, for one, wish that we had cherry picked more items, but there is always time for that down the road. "Mid-term" corrections are ALWAYS possible.
Should the JPWA be voted down, then the NWA guys will assume that it was all BS, that the typical line guy at DAL is representitive the stereotype. The NWA MEC and negotiators will proceed to cut the BEST possible deal for their own pilot group and hunker down for a year or more of detailed, painstaking, and expensive arbitration.
Tens, if not hundereds of million of dollars in benefits will be lost. RA will realize that he cannot trust the DAL pilot leadership to fully represent the
"will of the pilot group" and may instead will turn a group whose motivations he better understands.
The careful "bridging" that has occurred will be lost, and suspicion will reign among "blue tail" and "red tail" for the next 20 years.
Just a hunch...
Nu