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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler
It is exactly true shiznit. No matter how many times you MEC types want to define over and over again what management said, management said it. They've never taken it back. We're seeing the results today.
That number changes constantly from you MEC types. Why? Because you've made it up. You won't show your numbers any more than you'll show the survey results from the last contract. Nobody's buying it.
I'll repeat what mangement said because I know it's your job to spin. Management said our contract was cost neutral. But they went further. They said that the pilot's contract was so "good" that it would provide for Delta being able to invest in initiatives that would benefit other employee groups at Delta. We're seeing that now with all other employee groups being back to their pre-bankruptcy wages.
No matter how often you want to redefine this with statements and numbers you can't possibly back up, it's just not true. Maybe we'll be getting a thank you from the other employee groups for our concessions.
Actually, Carl, I'm buying it. As a line pilot, I have no access to costing sheets put together by ALPA any more than I do to those put together by the Company. Have you seen their numbers?
The fact is that my reps, who did have access to every bit of data, looked me in the eye and told me exactly what Shiznit is saying here -- that our net increase in cost to the Company, after the pay rate increases, profit sharing decreases, vacation and CQ training pay increase, shift in bid periods, ALV expansion, etc., etc., was around $400M per year.
I believe them.
And you don't think that management has reason to spin data? The very people that need to justify to the BOD and Wall Street why they've just given the most expensive pilot group in the industry another $400M a year? You don't think they have any need for spin?
Really?
Yes, we're seeing the Company give pay raises to the other employees. Welcome to the anti-union initiative. Are they back to pre-BK wages? I don't know. What does that even mean? We were back to pre-BK (but post-LOA #46) prior to C2012. So what?
And do you really think they needed concessions from us to be able to afford to give raises after the profits we've been generating recently?