Originally Posted by
Tomcat
Well Alfa, I've spoken to Lee about Scope three different times. I Know what he said and I know what he did. There in lies the problem. If the Union and Lee think that the pilot group has the wrong perception of where they stand on Scope, whose problem is that? This is politics, and in politics, perception is 99% of reality. Personally, I no longer care what our Union says, I care what they DO. Words are cheap my friend...... Let's see some action from our Union, there is a storm on the horizon and it's starting at the grass-roots level. It's time for DALPA to regain control of the SCOPE issue and that means bringing they flying back within mainline.
TC
Okay, and I have known and worked with Lee off an on for almost 20 years. The problem is that people have made this issue hyper-emotional and when that happens they lose perspective. So at least if we are going to deal with the issue, let's deal with facts and not fables.
Lee is very careful about what he says and he would never say ever that he thinks it's good for Delta pilots to have DCI pilots make low wages. First, that statement makes no sense, second he does not believe that. So let's at least put that legend to rest.
What action do you want? You are a single issue person and are somewhat obsessed with this topic. Guess what, there are many other issues to deal with now. Do you really want to open up the contract right now and start talking about big issues? Is this really a good time for that?
While it is easy to pop off on a web board about some issue, it is much tougher to actually accomplish the task. Maybe you could just take a bigger view sometime and think about the multitude of emergency procedures that we have been dealing with in the last five years. In case you forgot, Delta was pretty close to being left for dead in early 2006. We are just 3 years beyond that and are now with the largest airline in the world and hooked up with Air France/KLM in a joint venture. Oh yeah, did I forget that we fought off a hostile takeover that would have cut our pilot force by a one third.
That in itself is better job protection than you can ever write into a contract. Rather than sit back and watch this change happen to us, DALPA has been at the forefront of managing this change and has gotten important contractual advancements at the same time. I am sorry but if you can't see the
actions that were required to pull that off then it is pretty pointless arguing with you.
So I see a storm of a handful of people complaining of web boards about how other people are not working hard enough for them, but that is not a mass effort. Your basic problem is that want simple solutions to complicated problems and you want it now. My question back to you is what are you
doing about this other than complaining on web boards. Why don't you go to your local representative and find out what you can do for your union. You would be surprised at the amount of work that needs to be done. It takes more time than banging on the keyboard but you might actually accomplish somethng rather than complaining about others.