Industry Update

[General Lee]

Surplus1,


I love reading your diatribes about what is fair in this world and what is not. It also bugs me that I have to leave a dictionary nearby also while reading your posts. Some people are impressed (BE99 Chick), and I think that at least guarantees you a date with her. (a little dinner, dancing, and maybe some romancing) But, you can lay it out any way you want, the fact remains that Delta will deal with Dalpa any way they so chose to get the desired result. When we are negotiating for OUR LIVES like we just did, we were mainly concerned with our OWN LIVES. We did not impose new pay rates on you guys, and we did not impose anything else. We actually allowed Delta to decide on who will get new RJs, which is their right since they are hurting financially. They wanted that right. We also allowed a lot more larger RJs. Was this because of RJDC pressure? I doubt it, since Grinstein and Kolschack know that there is a limit to the usefulness of RJs. They wanted a certain amount, and that was about it. They also wanted a little freedom to choose who they want to fly them, and that will bring DCI costs down. Does ALPA want your pay rates to go down? I doubt it--since that would lower the amount of dues ALPA would get. But, Delta has financial problems, and you guys will also feel the heat, eventually. That isn't because of Dalpa, but because of reality. The RJDC is a front for whiners. Malone had no reason to demand anything about pay rates for DCI or percentages in flying, because Delta was going to do whatever they wanted in those categories eventually.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[79%N1]

Your still wrong regarding what RJDC is about........whether or not Delta screw with ASA and Comair and gives all future growth to CHQ, SKW, or whomever......Or whether or not DALPA has scope or whatever, General and all your cronies (this means you FDJ2), you are still WRONG!

 

[General Lee]

FDJ2 is my cronie? Thanks, I'll take that any day. He "speaks gooder english than me do" and can spit out the facts faster than I can.



So, the RJDC wants "equal representation" right? I guess that is where you are coming from. So, what should Dalpa do when negotiating things that can directly affect us, like scope that could potentially park some of our planes or reduce the need for our pilots? Should we have gotten new representation for just those items in the contract? Sounds like a plan to me----ALPA for 2/3 of the contract negotiations, and then the Teamsters for scope. That doesn't make any sense.


Bye Bye--General Lee