Originally Posted by
Racer X
Bottom line, you are still responsible for your MEC.
We supported your strike action and you left our guys on the street for years.
Comair is/always has been a contract carrier.
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Sorry to all that are affected, but it's not anything new where others haven't been for longer than you.
Grow up a little and welcome to the new age of lawyers listening to accountants running airlines.
Yes...you ARE responsible for YOUR MEC...Racer X.
Let's remind everyone of the DAL MEC that took EAL jets, routes and gates...and NO EAL pilots. Stand up group, they were. Only into the mid 90's did they take a few pilots. UAL on the other hand? OPENED THEIR DOORS the minute the strike came down and hired HUNDREDS.
Let's not kid anyone. There's a reason that Claude Sullivan took a break from Ford Harrison last year to work with DAL management and the MEC. It was to find a way to rid DAL of the regional carriers and shift the jobs to mainline.
Welcome to "Taking it Back."
What Ernie Gann wrote about DAL hasn't changed.
DAL is watching the Aer Lingus experiment. They will put low cost foreign crews in DAL jets flying internationally. That will flush those pilots back to domestic and the domestic guys into the RJ's.
Once again, those who you consider "unworthy" will be shoved to the street. Some will find jobs, some won't.
They ALL will remember how their union "brothers" stood up for them. How they "took it back."
And when you find your management won't capitulate to your demands...you will have them...you will beg your "brothers" to stand with you...after all, you're fellow "union men"...right????
Don't worry.
They'll remember.