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Nu,
That's not right. Anyone who looked at the numbers would (and will) come to the same general conclusions. FDJ2 has never even suggested, or bothered to care, what most of us write about.
As for talking points, I figured them out long before the arbitration and my forecast of relative seniority, by equipment, predated any of the official prognostications - heck it even goes back to 1999 CMR/ASA/DAL.
I will now make another prognostication. The new Delta will sell, or reconfigure the ownership, of Compass and Mesaba to try to make an end run around some of the employment protection provisions sold to us as a reason to vote for the JPWA. If we fail to get Compass / Mesaba / fill in the blanks, on the list, they are going to get outside the ability of our MEC to enforce portions of section 1. As I have written before, flow-throughs do not work. This will be more proof that we can not rely on future promises of employment.
IMHO this scope crisis (yes, the DC9 flying going out is a crisis IMHO, after all the 737-700 could also get picked off by an RJ) that is what we should care more about than whether some former MEC Official gets a $200,000 a year VP position at National.
And while I'm rambling ....
Instead of waging a seniority war over who gets displaced by the DC9 flying - WHY DON'T WE FIX IT ? .... by making sure those replacement jets are flown by Delta pilots? I'd be a lot less worried about the last 500 numbers on the list if we were keeping our flying.
That's not right. Anyone who looked at the numbers would (and will) come to the same general conclusions. FDJ2 has never even suggested, or bothered to care, what most of us write about.
As for talking points, I figured them out long before the arbitration and my forecast of relative seniority, by equipment, predated any of the official prognostications - heck it even goes back to 1999 CMR/ASA/DAL.
I will now make another prognostication. The new Delta will sell, or reconfigure the ownership, of Compass and Mesaba to try to make an end run around some of the employment protection provisions sold to us as a reason to vote for the JPWA. If we fail to get Compass / Mesaba / fill in the blanks, on the list, they are going to get outside the ability of our MEC to enforce portions of section 1. As I have written before, flow-throughs do not work. This will be more proof that we can not rely on future promises of employment.
IMHO this scope crisis (yes, the DC9 flying going out is a crisis IMHO, after all the 737-700 could also get picked off by an RJ) that is what we should care more about than whether some former MEC Official gets a $200,000 a year VP position at National.
And while I'm rambling ....
Instead of waging a seniority war over who gets displaced by the DC9 flying - WHY DON'T WE FIX IT ? .... by making sure those replacement jets are flown by Delta pilots? I'd be a lot less worried about the last 500 numbers on the list if we were keeping our flying.
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