Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Carl, with the exception of item 3 your not giving a plan. You are giving demands.
Item 1 and 2 are the demands. Items 3, 4, and 5 is the plan to get there. At least we all understand that you'll refuse to see a plan even when one is posted for you.
Originally Posted by
sailingfun
Item 3 has and is being pursued. One step in that direction was to attempt remove Fedex from the RLA. I am sure you saw how that turned out with a labor friendly Congress and NMB.
That attempt had nothing to do with reigning in the NMB and you know it. Item 3 is not being attempted at all yet. That's another big strike against ALPA national. ALPA should be teaming up with the Teamsters, SEIU, and all other AFL-CIO affiliates to fight this in the Congress. We should push for a national suspension of service day from ALL the above unions to get Congress to act. Either labor has national clout or we don't. ALPA is too afraid to even find out.
Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The rest of your plan would go like this. Delta, Thanks for your opener. We will get back to you in June. DALPA, JUNE!! Thats 6 months away we need to get meeting going now!. Delta, You misunderstood. We meant June of 2014. DALPA, Hey NMB Delta is being unreasonable and wont talk to us! NMB. We don't think so good day!
I thought you said there was no plan?
The rest of this paragraph says it all. You've already decided how Delta management will act, and how the NMB will act - so we've already lost. Since we've already lost, your plan is to beg for table scraps. If begging for table scraps is all you and ALPA national have to offer, let's keep those union dues in our own pocket. Let's realize that Delta is a 100% non-union airline. Let's stop the charade of DALPA being anything other than an organization to make Delta pilots feel better about surrendering and eating table scraps.
Carl