Are you working two careers? Pilots are not working as salaried management in real world corporations, we are working in a career that is still partially regulated by the US Government and US Labor Laws.

Are you under a different CONTRACT then the rest of the pilots? The contract is there for a reason, it is supposed to set limits on management and limits on the pilots. We are NOT salaried employees, we ARE contract workers covered by the Railway Labor Act.

Most executive employees in the outside world are not regulated by the government. Most salaried execs do not have the same protections and limitations, thats why their jobs can be more portable to other companies.
Pilots by virtue of seniority based contracts have largely traded portability for fleeting job security. Perhaps not the best trade off but thats what we have negotiated.

If you approve of DL management applying the outside world "rules" to us, then all the pilots at DAL are in big trouble. We should let them pay us an annual salary and fly us to FAR limits. We should let them remove all scope protection and rigs. As much as we like to think we are executives, we are covered under a LABOR contract. We are a LABOR union. We are covered under LABOR laws. We are not salaried management employees under individual contract.

There are at times special cases that need to be handled outside the contract, but rarely for the pilot group as a whole. I expect us to take advantage of the good parts of our contract, management will take advantage of the parts that were poorly negotiated.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.