AFellowAviator,
You as a check airman and a sim instructor should acknowledge that "the only stupid question is the one that you didn't ask." At least that's what my instructors always said. I sincerely hope you don't conduct your training sessions in the same fashion.
I will acknowledge that your MEC did what a few SENIOR COMAIR pilots wanted, NOT the majority of the group. Somebody was saying if this had gone to a vote, there would have been more people voting FOR hiring of Delta furloughees than those who voted in favor of your contract.
Bill said it perfectly: "Does a strike and a new ALPA pin, followed by a few years of unprecedented RJ growth, entitle you to act like arrogant assholes? If it's wrong it is wrong." Let me expand on that a little bit. Comair is growing and expanding on account of Delta. There is still A LOT of hiring going on there, while Delta is announcing FURTHER furloughs. To cap it off, you have a group of Comair lifers suing ALPA because their careers are allegedly threatened by Delta scope clause. Now, your MEC won't even extend a hand to those unfortunate people who are furloughed from Delta and whose flying you took over. Add it all up. I'm just waiting for more "brotherly" actions from JC and the company.
Let me refresh your mind about your strike. Do you recall ALPA-wide assessments to put food on your table while you hold the line? Do you recall donations to your family fund? Do you recall MEC's passing resolutions and urging their managements to hire your pilots, namely UAL?
On another similar topic, isn't it Leo's job to seek scope relief? I mean after all, he is the CEO of Delta, not JC. Also if Delta did in fact give up even more flying through relaxing scope, who's to say that it wouldn't be shifted to SkyWest, ASA, ACA, or CHQ? After all, you guys don't have a scope that entitles you to all future DCI flying nor that precludes even your current flying from being outsourced.
Bottom line, this was a great opportunity for CMR and DAL to come together. If you guys truly did rank below squadron buddies, then perhaps that should have been a negotiated topic - "no sir, if you want our blessing, you give OUR pilots the first preference, THEN others who are not offering you jobs at this time." If your MEC held a line at that, I would applaud him and so would many other pilots because THAT would have been looking after the interests of Comair pilots.
Looking forward to your reply!
AFELLOWAVIATOR said:
DOG,
Your question is stupid.You will not acknowledge that our MEC was doing what they were elected to do. It has absolutely nothing to do with getting us jobs. Talk about extortion. We are now members of the Delta family, and they refuse to acknoledge that fact. They do not want to work with us period, until now that they needed something.
We have to be in a defensive mode. Look at the US Air wholly owned. They tried for years to work with mainline, and what did it get them? Delta pilots would of already tried some thing lke a j4j extortion if they thought they could get away with it.
They simply want to get JC and company out of office in hopes of them being replaced with a passive group that will let them walk all over them. Our mgt. did not like them either, and why? Because they would not roll over. I think it is absolutely great that we have an MEC that puts our pilot group first.
Our MEC went to the meeting with the Comair pilots interest at hand, as they should of, and the Delta Mec went to the meeting with the Delta pilots interest at hand, as they should of.
It was an ambush by the Deltra mec, period. They announced weeks ahead of time that they were going to do it, unlike there meeting with the ASA MEC. They knew our MEC would do there job, and insist that scope be talked about. It was political. They were and still are attempting to drive a wedge between our MEC and the pilots. It aint gonna work. Virtually every Comair pilot I talk to has the attitude that the Delta MEC was acting out of bad faith and they are essentially full of shi%$.
