Originally Posted by newKnow

slow,

Why? I mean really, do you think it's necessary to belittle your new "brothers." Of course, I don't compare the north group to anyone on your list, but I am proud of any gains we achieved. Did we have to endure police dogs, angry mobs, or a hungar strike? No. But, a whole lot of us were called in to the chief pilots office for questionable block times, brake release times, and sick calls. No biggie. But, it did get national attention. It did get the President (Bush) to come down on our CEO and tell him to get his act together. It might have even helped our South brothers when they had a fit when US Airways wanted to take over "My Delta," by putting management on notice that unhappy pilots can ruin an airline and thus DAL was not worth the trouble.

I wasn't there for your deal, so I don't want to pretend that that is definately why happened. I was happy that you guys were sucessful though.

But, you weren't there for our deal either and I wonder why you question what it took for us to do what we did when you weren't there. I wonder why you call us thieves when you weren't there? I wonder why you question our integrity, but don't question managements integrity when they declare bankruptcy, freeze our pensions, then suddenly locate $200 million.

I ask that if you are going to call a group a bunch of thieves that you apply the standard equally to all groups. Maybe if you connect the dots you will find that one group was just getting back what was taken from them in the first place....