Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Understand that in the scenario you present, there is still an agreement reached between consenting parties.
This agreement is more fairy tale than reality. Look at the objective history and you will find D-ALPA put the "for sale" sign on junior jobs long before bankruptcy. It started when they went out of their way to begin defining flying that Delta pilots DON'T DO in their scope exceptions.
As you point out, scope has been monetized and used to transact deals with management.
IF we took the moral and legal high ground of never selling out another member, EVER, the value of our jobs would increase (supply / demand curve). Mesabah is quite correct on the law and his contribution to the debate should not be minimized.
Scope sales = political decisions
Of course it is political. It happens when one job gets "value" over the other. It really is ingrained in many of us. A telltale sign is when someone tell you to worry more about the WB jets and those seats than those little RJ seats. It is merely a distraction. Unions should worry about every seat.