Originally Posted by alfaromeo

The facts as Ken sees them. Once again, the NWA MEC turns to publicly trashing the DAL MEC as their chief operating tactic.



Interesting, that within hours of the ALPA President calling for an election for a joint MEC, the NWA MEC tries to stir the pot and claim that the DAL MEC is discriminating against the former NWA pilots. "Getting the facts out" or "protecting my union job", I am sure it is one or the other.



Thanks for the advice Carl. And yet it wasn't the DAL MEC Chairman acting like a fool on You Tube or the DAL MEC Chairman whining to Congress about how his contract is a B-Scale or the DAL MEC Chairman demanding that he had to have contract parity from day one. The NWA Merger Committee's own testimony was that DAL has a record over many years of higher pay rates than NWA. I am sure you guys can teach us all about how to get better contracts. We are just a bunch of hicks from the south.



I read Ken Watts on the National Forum claiming that:

The Delta MEC never contacted the NWA MEC during LOA 19 Negotiations.

Truth : Multiple testimony shows that there were numerous and repeated contacts and that the Delta MEC strove to negotiate for the NWA MEC even though they refused to cooperate.

The NWA Merger Committee never made a Date of Hire proposal in February.

Truth : They did make those proposals and based their arbitration case on Date of Hire

The NWA Merger Committee did not try to put 3000 Delta pilots in the bottom 4000 spots on the new list.

Truth : They made multiple proposals with that very outcome.

Ken Watts has never tried to apologize for his false statements, nor has he ever tried to correct the record. If he is not embarrassed about this, then there is little I can say about him that would embarrass me. Whatever his record is with the NWA pilots, his record with the DAL pilots is one of false statement after false statement, along with constantly trying to blame the shortcomings of the NWA MEC on the DAL MEC. Not a great record.