Originally Posted by
Bigflya
Gents,
Let's agree to disagree on the commuting policy stuff for now and switch gears for a moment. I thought the SLI stuff was dead and done. But what of this Christmas Eve present letter I rx from DALPA talking about a .25% assessment for an Intigration Relief Fund? Pulling the $$ until the fund reaches a cool mil$$. Is this for legal expenses because some are unhappy with the reward and don't know the definition of binding arbitration? From the numbers I've seen, most guys are within .1 or .2% of their original relative seniority and the most was about 3%. Let's not let this turn into USAir/AWA. Don't let the hire date next to the name drive you nuts. Each co hired different numbers at different times and for that we cannot change. The only one that will win here is the lawyers. Time to accept our award, integrate, make this merger work and look forward to becoming profitable and negotiating our next contract in 2012 as a combined, unified pilot group.
MEC elections coming up. Moak time at the helm must come to an end. He may be a nice guy, and have good will, but his actions got us the SLI we have. The fact of the matter is: we should've been able to vote on this SLI, and Moak thought we weren't "smart" enough to decide what's good for us. Moak's got to go, who else is running? Maybe somebody who believes pilots should decide how to receive their "future awards" if any, meaning, into the retirement account or as income, or, maybe somebody who beliefs pilots should be able to vote on vital issues as "SLI". The fact of the matter is Moak knew we weren't going to be happy with this SLI and he wanted to make sure that something as insignificant as the people he's supposed to represent didn't get in his way of making this merger happen at any cost.
So, once again, who is running?