Fact (1) ALPA sued Delta to stop Comair's operation of Delta Shuttle and lost.
Yeah, we shouldn't be allowed to prevent our flying. Besides, even had we won that grienance, you would not have lost a single pilot. Let's face it, you are growing like a weed.
(2) ALPA filed a scope ratio grievance, then withdrew it when it was apparent that the arbitrator was going to apply Force Majure in the short term.
------Your fact is incorrect (and therefore not a fact). The scope grievance was dropped because of the 3rd consecutive quarter of losses at DAL eliminated any scope limit.
Fact, two pilot groups voted for it after they were told they would be fired without it. As is they will now get furlough rights. The other pilot groups have organized to bring a DFR suit against ALPA and have picketed National's offices.
--------Seperate issue than the rjdc, and I am not learned enough to offer much comment on it. However, I will ask if you believe that the U pilots should have just allowed mgt to give all of their flying away without negotiating some protections for their members? After all, it is their flying (contractually). Also, wouldn't ALPA have violated their DFR if they did not allow U pilots to negotiate protections for thier pilots?
--------Furthermore, didn't j4j in fact create waayyyy more regional jobs? I don't necessarily agree with it, but it kind of refutes your point that ALPA is trying to kill rjs.
One result of the RJDC litigation is that the Delta MEC is much more reserved about their public statements. If ALPA intends no harm to Connection pilots, why are we still locked out of meetings and negotiations with DAL?
------BECAUSE IT IS OUR FLYING. We don't let the airtran pilots in either. Or the ACA or Skywest pilots. You have no right to be in our negotiations. If you disagree, please post the language that gives you control over even a single hour of Delta flying.
Now your MEC's VARS messages are a little harder to pinpoint, just statements that ALPA's economists are watching the Company's performance and now believe the scope ratio portion of the contract can be enforced.
-------You should listen a little bit closer to those messages. You have obviously heard them wrong. There is no longer any scope ratio, and therefore nothing to be enforced. We are going to "meet and confer" to set new limits, and DALPA has NEVER made any public statement indicating that they will seek to shrink DCI block hours. Yet you continue to assert otherwise.
But I can sure prove a positive. I will change my icon to ALPA's stop RJ tags they have distributed, if the file size is right.
