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Originally Posted by DAL73n
All you're doing is pushing Section 6 ville back two years. We will live under this contract until 2017 because in 2015 there is nothing the company wants bad enough to start early so we can suck it up now (my preference) or suck it up later. I'll take my chances with this contract and no ALV+2 (mandatory additional work), no ALV +15, Reserve Guarantee +2 (more work), current profit sharing (makes up for some of the lost pay), no sick verification program, 255 large profitable RJs (with no NEW state of the art (WiFi, IFE, First class in all) and let the company live with however many 50s they want. All we're going to do is push the pain down the road and it will be even harder later to move the line/bar.
^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^
I've read the TA and current PWA several times. Every time someone brings up a negative scenario of what the company COULD do, they all seem to me to be intelligent possibilities and LIKELY to happen since they're allowed. And yet, I keep reading again and again by Bill Lumberg and (I'm surprised) Johnso that these are far-fetched, "unlikely", or a mis-reading. Sorry, I absolutely disagree, and I can read a contract equally as well as you if not better. Delta is LIKELY to take it right to whatever line is allowed, and LIKELY to maximize what they've already shown they want, 70+ seaters, and LIKELY to park the 50seat as they've already said they desire and have been doing. They are LIKELY to use the work-rule changes they've asked for, and the ALV increase, and the reserve +15. You don't bargain for something that's not valuable to you, and that is what they bargained for. Come on Bill and Johnso, stop being so blindly optimistic and looking through naively rose-colored glasses! Analyze the changes from a worst-case scenario, not some hopeful "I just can't imagine the company doing THAT" mentality.
Vote No. Don't give up work rules and scope that will never come back. Heck I probably have 3-4years flying left before I pull the plug, and I wouldn't vote yes for this TA even with 40% pay increase. Don't be the guys that dropped the baton...