NWA MEC Letter
The MEC Officers are a unified team that continues to do its best to serve the Northwest pilots at a difficult time and at great sacrifice to our families. We are tired of threats, distractions and obstruction when we should be united in a common purpose - seniority list integration. The constant public and private sniping by a minority of pilots is a tremendous impediment to our primary function of representing you the Northwest pilots. It further diminishes our credibility to facilitate negotiations between the Northwest and Delta pilots in regard to seniority list integration.
The MEC Officers agree with the Arbitration Panel that it is in both pilot groups' interest to achieve a negotiated settlement. Any negotiated settlement must meet the fair and equitable standard of both pilot groups' SLI Representatives. As a reminder, the SLI Representatives were determined by the MEC and no MEC Officer is a SLI Representative.
In less than 2 weeks the MEC Officers will be asked to represent, make decisions and/or testify during the SLI Arbitration. It is time to decide to either support the current MEC Officer Team or replace us. The MEC Officers have called for a MEC meeting by teleconference on October 8th and willingly stand for a vote of no confidence and consideration of Recall.
In the case of a vote of no confidence, the MEC Officers will immediately withdraw from facilitating, strategizing or testifying in regard to the seniority arbitration. We will continue to provide logistics as expressly requested by the NWA Merger committee. We believe this action is required by false accusations about our efforts on behalf of the Northwest pilots. In addition a Recall ballot will be placed on the agenda of the third Quarter MEC meeting.
One of the accusations made is that the SLI Representatives are surrounded by compromise inclined volunteers (yes voters). While this defies logic, the apparent concern is the intent to influence the SLI Representatives to accept an unfavorable settlement. We stand by all the volunteers' resolve to represent the Northwest pilots in a fair and equitable manner.
It should be noted that our seniority is as important to us as it is to every pilot at Northwest. We appreciate the support of the vast majority of the pilots we represent. Please call any of us with your questions and concerns.
Fraternally,
Dave Stevens, Monty Montgomery and Mark Young