Originally Posted by
slowplay
I did my own research. What you say doesn't add up.
Delta didn't own Mesaba until October 30, 2008. That's the first time that there was even the possibility of a merger of the two carriers under the same ownership. Delta didn't get a Single Operating Certificate until December 31, 2009. Mesaba was sold July 1, 2010. Your "years" had exactly 6 months to realistically take place.
Oh, why would an MEC want a merger fund? Your airline was publicly placed up for sale. The other two wholly owned carriers were sold. You're currently ripe for being parted out. Ya think they might want to have a hedge against that...like talking to merger counsel in advance?
I'm thinking somebody else might be lying over and over again....
Anybody else want to give the real reason for a recall 13 days prior to the term's end?
I'll venture (I quit a month ago before they could lay me off) to guess it is the same guy that led the recall last year of the MEC.
His rational (last time) was that the MEC job was to ensure employment for it's members by any means necessary. He was advocating a pay cut and was mad the Mec would not consider it or discuss it with the company. Better yet this individual thought that the FO's were the ones that needed to take the larger percentage of the cut (that I heard first hand) because they needed to "pay their dues" and since he was 20+ year captain at Comair he had "earned" his. Also the rumor was JC was a supporter of this guy and a party to the recall attempt.
So it could be the same guy, don't know as I took another regional job before they could lay me off. I'm glad to be out of that mess, I never understood the arrogance and disillusion that permeated the upper part of the seniority list.