Delta pilots to strike?

[RJDC]

Can someone sue ALPA if they don't strike?

 

[pilotyip]

Again all the management bashing, if any one has the answers step up and save DAL. The strike certainly will not solve any problems. It is kinda like a W.W.II Japanese solider jumping off a cliff because it is honorable.

 

[uba757]

Pilotyip so when does it end? When do we say enough is enough? We have to do something. We all have to get toguether and tell management that we are not going to pay for their mistakes any longer. I dont care if you fly for AA, UAL, DAL, NWA, SW, JB or any other carrier. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. UBA757

 

[Dizel8]

I dont care if you fly for AA, UAL, DAL, NWA, SW, JB or any other carrier. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. UBA757

Don't get me wrong and I totally agree with your sentiment, however, no pilot group has a leg to stand on, no negotiating power. Sure, the DAL pilots could strike, but that would probably be the end of the airline, at least as we know it. Look at those airlines that went before DAL, ie U, UAL, there were a bit of blustering rehetoric and then they folded. In the case of U, there was dissension even within UALPA.

64% of the NWA pilots agreed to interim concession, hopefully they will get a bit better than what the company is offering, but I doubt very much. The NWA pilots are known to be the hard ball players, yet, I doubt they will walk, nor do I think it would make sense. There is a reason, why the company proposal is so draconian at NWA. Anything better than that, will be viewed as a blessing by the pilots, so they will take it, they migth be upset, but they will agree, considering the alternative.

Management is well aware, that they have the pilots by the short and curlies, so why on earth should they negotiate a better deal? Oh, they might relent a little, simply so that the union can say, and the pilots will think, they managed to get a little back, but it won't be much. In the case of U, managements offer actually kept getting worse, untill the pilots capitulated.

Had pilots showed strength from the beginning, it might have been different, but that would have required the pilots at U to walk, they didn't, so now management at all airlines are lining up the dominoes and watching them fall.

 

[Boeingman]

Talk about deja vu all over again! This thread rings soooooo familiar.

If I'd saved the the threads from the ALPA bulletin board circa 1988/89, this would sound like an instant replay. Only the paint job and the names have changed.

Good luck to the Delta guys. You're going to need it. My only advice is if the situation is grim enough to you personally to hit the bricks...do so with the full knowledge that you may never come back through that door.

Or 1983

 

[Boeingman]

Delta pilots aren't going to strike. You know it, I know it, my dog knows it and above all management knows it.

That sums it up perfectly.