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Old 06-05-2012 | 12:16 PM
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I repeat!
DAL CAME TO US!!!This is THE most important thing to note!
Not once ion history has an airline approached a pilot union before a contract date.
What DAL needs is not on the table.
We are in a position to bargain. This is a contract opening negotiation. Our NC evidently doesn't know how to negotiate. It is up to us to say NO and start the negotiating.
Someone asked on another thread why we don't have professional negotiators??Someone answered that pilots can read.
Well start reading!!!! WE CAN NEVER RECOVER ANY SCOPE WE GIVE UP!


We should have professional negotiators. I know you can read but unless you have been trained in the intricacies of this legal slay of hand game you are out of your league.The professional negotiator is a certain set of skills that we as pilots do not get. They are risk takers. We by the nature of our jobs are not. This contract appears to have been presented to the NC and accepted. The MEC is selling this for management.Their job is to look at it objectively not sell it to us. They see NOTHING wrong with it! Wow!!

Please quit being lambs to the slaughter! We are in a position to ask for more money,better work rules and not give up scope.We voted ourselves some pay CUTS. Times are good at DAL. USE IT! See this for what it is..A CONTRACT EXTENSION.

VOTE NO!


PS If you were not a DAL or former NW pilot when we took those pay cuts please talk to folks who were. We gave up 40 to 50% on average along with a pension. Both pilot groups took one of those pay cuts (There were 3 or 4 all together) to help the company avoid bankruptcy. This was sold to the pilot groups by their respective union leaders at the time. We see how well that worked.The pension like SCOPE will never come back once given BUT pay and Work Rules can. This contract isn't even a COLA! Play with the duty rig and % all you want. RA is not giving you anything.If they don't hire you stay in the left seat of the MadDog(or very junior ER/ FO in NYC) for a very, very, very long time.
Old 06-05-2012 | 12:20 PM
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wow.............
Old 06-05-2012 | 12:21 PM
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Ok. So vote NO.
Old 06-05-2012 | 12:22 PM
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Trash Hauler, I'm with you.
Old 06-05-2012 | 12:22 PM
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wow.............
I agree. WOW! The guy is absolutely 100% CORRECT!
Old 06-05-2012 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Trash Hauler
I repeat!
DAL CAME TO US!!!This is THE most important thing to note!
Not once ion history has an airline approached a pilot union before a contract date.
What DAL needs is not on the table.
We are in a position to bargain. This is a contract opening negotiation. Our NC evidently doesn't know how to negotiate. It is up to us to say NO and start the negotiating.

Someone asked on another thread why we don't have professional negotiators??Someone answered that pilots can read.
Well start reading!!!! WE CAN NEVER RECOVER ANY SCOPE WE GIVE UP!


We should have professional negotiators. I know you can read but unless you have been trained in the intricacies of this legal slay of hand game you are out of your league.The professional negotiator is a certain set of skills that we as pilots do not get. They are risk takers. We by the nature of our jobs are not. This contract appears to have been presented to the NC and accepted. The MEC is selling this for management.Their job is to look at it objectively not sell it to us. They see NOTHING wrong with it! Wow!!

Please quit being lambs to the slaughter! We are in a position to ask for more money,better work rules and not give up scope.We voted ourselves some pay CUTS. Times are good at DAL. USE IT! See this for what it is..A CONTRACT EXTENSION.

VOTE NO!


PS If you were not a DAL or former NW pilot when we took those pay cuts please talk to folks who were. We gave up 40 to 50% on average along with a pension. Both pilot groups took one of those pay cuts (There were 3 or 4 all together) to help the company avoid bankruptcy. This was sold to the pilot groups by their respective union leaders at the time. We see how well that worked.The pension like SCOPE will never come back once given BUT pay and Work Rules can. This contract isn't even a COLA! Play with the duty rig and % all you want. RA is not giving you anything.If they don't hire you stay in the left seat of the MadDog(or very junior ER/ FO in NYC) for a very, very, very long time.
Good post.
Old 06-05-2012 | 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Trash Hauler
I repeat!
DAL CAME TO US!!!This is THE most important thing to note!
Not once ion history has an airline approached a pilot union before a contract date.
What DAL needs is not on the table.
We are in a position to bargain. This is a contract opening negotiation. Our NC evidently doesn't know how to negotiate. It is up to us to say NO and start the negotiating.
Someone asked on another thread why we don't have professional negotiators??Someone answered that pilots can read.
Well start reading!!!! WE CAN NEVER RECOVER ANY SCOPE WE GIVE UP!


We should have professional negotiators. I know you can read but unless you have been trained in the intricacies of this legal slay of hand game you are out of your league.The professional negotiator is a certain set of skills that we as pilots do not get. They are risk takers. We by the nature of our jobs are not. This contract appears to have been presented to the NC and accepted. The MEC is selling this for management.Their job is to look at it objectively not sell it to us. They see NOTHING wrong with it! Wow!!

Please quit being lambs to the slaughter! We are in a position to ask for more money,better work rules and not give up scope.We voted ourselves some pay CUTS. Times are good at DAL. USE IT! See this for what it is..A CONTRACT EXTENSION.

VOTE NO!


PS If you were not a DAL or former NW pilot when we took those pay cuts please talk to folks who were. We gave up 40 to 50% on average along with a pension. Both pilot groups took one of those pay cuts (There were 3 or 4 all together) to help the company avoid bankruptcy. This was sold to the pilot groups by their respective union leaders at the time. We see how well that worked.The pension like SCOPE will never come back once given BUT pay and Work Rules can. This contract isn't even a COLA! Play with the duty rig and % all you want. RA is not giving you anything.If they don't hire you stay in the left seat of the MadDog(or very junior ER/ FO in NYC) for a very, very, very long time.
Another person with reading comprehension problems. This TA will result in more Delta pilots and less RJ pilots. By the way the NMB could care less what we made in 2000, they will look at the landscape today and see that without this TA we are #2 behind SW(they don't consider FE or UPS in our industry). They are under no obligation to make us #1. The younger pilots at DL will make out real well with the 15% put into retirement accounts, over 25 to 30 years that is going to make a lot of millionaires. But go ahead and rant, use large font, and disregard that we did have professional negotiators involved, you're on a roll !
Old 06-05-2012 | 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Trash Hauler
I repeat!
DAL CAME TO US!!!This is THE most important thing to note!
Not once ion history has an airline approached a pilot union before a contract date.
What DAL needs is not on the table.
We are in a position to bargain. This is a contract opening negotiation. Our NC evidently doesn't know how to negotiate. It is up to us to say NO and start the negotiating.
Someone asked on another thread why we don't have professional negotiators??Someone answered that pilots can read.
Well start reading!!!! WE CAN NEVER RECOVER ANY SCOPE WE GIVE UP!


We should have professional negotiators. I know you can read but unless you have been trained in the intricacies of this legal slay of hand game you are out of your league.The professional negotiator is a certain set of skills that we as pilots do not get. They are risk takers. We by the nature of our jobs are not. This contract appears to have been presented to the NC and accepted. The MEC is selling this for management.Their job is to look at it objectively not sell it to us. They see NOTHING wrong with it! Wow!!

Please quit being lambs to the slaughter! We are in a position to ask for more money,better work rules and not give up scope.We voted ourselves some pay CUTS. Times are good at DAL. USE IT! See this for what it is..A CONTRACT EXTENSION.

VOTE NO!


PS If you were not a DAL or former NW pilot when we took those pay cuts please talk to folks who were. We gave up 40 to 50% on average along with a pension. Both pilot groups took one of those pay cuts (There were 3 or 4 all together) to help the company avoid bankruptcy. This was sold to the pilot groups by their respective union leaders at the time. We see how well that worked.The pension like SCOPE will never come back once given BUT pay and Work Rules can. This contract isn't even a COLA! Play with the duty rig and % all you want. RA is not giving you anything.If they don't hire you stay in the left seat of the MadDog(or very junior ER/ FO in NYC) for a very, very, very long time.
Don't get me wrong. I'm trending strongly towards a no vote, and I get where you're coming from. But, reading this post makes me want to go watch Belushi's "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?!?!" Animal House scene.

Maybe we should all take a day off?
Old 06-05-2012 | 01:15 PM
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Old 06-05-2012 | 01:34 PM
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Redirect from Elvis' video clip. Totally un-TA related, but well worth the 10 minutes. Caution language.

(OK don't know how to embed video apparently, so....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=PSEYXWmEse8
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