PuffDriver
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Puff,
The problem you FDJC, and other I have talked to is you believe everything you are being told.
The NW MEC does not prefer arbitration, however arbitration may be a preferable alternative to the grossly lopsided deal you want to impose on the NW pilots.
A mutually negotiated SLI is far preferable, but as evidenced by the typical hubris I see here and talking to other DAL pilots does not lend itself to a negotiated deal. I hope I'm wrong.
Somehow I don't think we'll be the ones getting creamed, however If we do it will be no worse than the terms you want to dictate to the NW pilots, and will probably be far better.
It's pretty cut and dried, really. I have been told nothing. It just stands to reason. The past is the past, the future is the future. We can change neither. You cannot recoup the fruits of our retirement, and you cannot recoup the fruits of some pilots that might retire, nor can we. So we are where we are. We have two like groups, yet one is more senior than the other in terms of age but not seniority. We have the widebodies, true that they are not "premium" widebodies, and they pay more than your premium, widebodies. With a working agreement in place prior to the SLI list, hostages will not be able to be taken, and a contract will not be held in abeyance as a penalty for an "unfair" award.
Your words may state that a mutually negotiated list is preferrable, but your MEC actions indicate otherwise. So they will stand their ground, unless that ground actually shows Delta pilots unwittingly coming out ahead, then they will back up even further. This will go to arbitration under ALPA merger policy, and the SLI will come away looking strikingly similar to what the Delta pilots have proposed.
BTW-I appreciate your admission that you have stymied the negotiations as "you will do no worse in arbitration anyway". Your idiocy will have cost us at minimum some great contractual gains, equity, and other penalties yet to be determined.
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