Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
How many times do I have to say this. I am not trying to tie anything to our profitability. I told you what level of willingness to expect.
Go back and reread your own posts. It sure seems clear to me that you're tying our pay increases to profitability. I don't have time right now to go back and retrieve all the quotes, but it should be obvious as you have said it several times.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I cannot speak for the management team here at DAL, but if the entire playing field is close to equal our costs are fixed. Get UCAL and AMR to produce results that can give us 2 billion in contractual gains.
The goal as I see it is to do what I posted last night. Get the big guys really close in pay etc, and then have short duration contracts to pattern them up.
A restoration contract would put pilot costs at about 10% if the total revenue of the company. We cannot begin to take a stance on what to demand. We need to see what transpires in the next 12 months.
I'm not a big fan of "pattern bargaining" in this situation. I understand that it will make it easier for us if the other pilots get big increases prior to our negotiation. That's common sense. But I really don't see that as being relevant to the fact that we are still being paid emergency/bankruptcy wages long after the emergency/bankruptcy has been over. I want to see the company do the right thing... put their money where their mouth is and start treating us like a valuable asset instead of an adversary. I also want to see whoever is representing us (whether that's ALPA or DPA) make it clear in no uncertain terms that our present situation is unacceptable, that we do not appreciate being taken advantage of like that, and that the expectation of this pilot group is to make significant progress towards restoration with our next contract in 2012. So far, ALPA doesn't seem to want to touch that with a 10 foot pole. I think that's the wrong move (has been all along) and has already made restoration more difficult.
In any case, pinning our hopes to whatever somebody else can achieve is not the kind of proactive representation I expect for my dues dollars.