Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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Joined APC: Jun 2008
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,716
That letter from our new President indicates to me that the transformation is complete.
Even more telling than the sentence you quote is this one:
"In many ways, traditional unionism doesn't work for us."
Dave Behncke just rolled over in his grave.
ALPA is now in complete partnership with management. Moakism is here.
I have serious reservations about the wisdom of going down this path but the membership has clearly endorsed it.
Maybe it will work. We've been really cooperative and given management pretty much everything they've asked for over the last few years. Hopefully they will see fit to reward us with a few contract enhancements.
What I'm wondering though, is why this new age labor/management paradigm should still cost 1.9% of my pay? It seems like we should be able to make some cutbacks to all the negotiating budgets and grievance staffing and strike preparations and contingency funds and a lot of other stuff.
Even more telling than the sentence you quote is this one:
"In many ways, traditional unionism doesn't work for us."
Dave Behncke just rolled over in his grave.
ALPA is now in complete partnership with management. Moakism is here.
I have serious reservations about the wisdom of going down this path but the membership has clearly endorsed it.
Maybe it will work. We've been really cooperative and given management pretty much everything they've asked for over the last few years. Hopefully they will see fit to reward us with a few contract enhancements.
What I'm wondering though, is why this new age labor/management paradigm should still cost 1.9% of my pay? It seems like we should be able to make some cutbacks to all the negotiating budgets and grievance staffing and strike preparations and contingency funds and a lot of other stuff.
Jury Duty?
I received a summons today for jury duty. I called scheduling (pilot support center closed) and they weren't terribly helpful -- the scheduler told me I would get the day of the summons off and that is it (reserve this month). As a commuter, there is no way I could stay in NYC until midnight and then make an 8am summons in San Antonio the following day but the scheduler didn't really care. I plan to call the PSC tomorrow and hopefully talk to somebody with both the authority to help and a little bit of common sense who will recognize the impossible situation scheduling is trying to put me in. I've read the PWA regarding legal duty (page 13-3 line 27); however, I'd like to hear from anybody else who had this happen while on reserve and see what it is reasonable to request/expect.
The fines for missing jury duty in San Antonio run from $100 to $1000 which I'd rather not subject myself to. Would it be reasonable to ask for either a positive space ticket home the night prior, or the day off prior to my summons to allow me the maximum number of chances to commute home? My jury duty begins on a Wednesday, no idea how long it will last -- would it be reasonable to ask for Tues-Fri as unscheduled legal duty and then update the PSC as the situation dictates? I'm not trying to game the system, just trying to figure out what would be considered the norm so I don't make a fool of myself and ask for something that my chief pilot would consider unreasonable. Not sure if it matters, but for the time in question, the reserve required is only 1, and the number available ranges from 10-13.
Thanks!
The fines for missing jury duty in San Antonio run from $100 to $1000 which I'd rather not subject myself to. Would it be reasonable to ask for either a positive space ticket home the night prior, or the day off prior to my summons to allow me the maximum number of chances to commute home? My jury duty begins on a Wednesday, no idea how long it will last -- would it be reasonable to ask for Tues-Fri as unscheduled legal duty and then update the PSC as the situation dictates? I'm not trying to game the system, just trying to figure out what would be considered the norm so I don't make a fool of myself and ask for something that my chief pilot would consider unreasonable. Not sure if it matters, but for the time in question, the reserve required is only 1, and the number available ranges from 10-13.
Thanks!
Straight QOL, homie
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WHEREAS ALPA has been unable or unwilling to translate the company's success into comparable gains for Delta pilots;
WHEREAS ALPA leadership is on the record as being utterly uninterested in making meaningful gains on Delta pilots' next CBA and, in fact, are more concerned with regional pilots' compensation;
WHEREAS "Constructive Engagement" has proven to be a one-way street that disproportionally favors the company;
WHEREAS Delta pilots are the de facto negotiators for every other employee group, and must bear the associated costs in the form of unwritten "me too" bargaining;
WHEREAS Delta flight attendants have gained far more with the threat of a union than they ever could if they we're actually represented by a union;
BE IT RESOLVED that the Delta Air Line Pilots Association hereby disbands; Delta pilots are no longer members of ALPA; dues will no longer be provided; and Delta pilots will use the threat of an in-house union to negotiate the most favorable terms possible.
Adios to D/ALPA bloated power mangers, fat cats, conflicts of interest, and ineffective, self-serving unelected bureaucrats.
WHEREAS ALPA leadership is on the record as being utterly uninterested in making meaningful gains on Delta pilots' next CBA and, in fact, are more concerned with regional pilots' compensation;
WHEREAS "Constructive Engagement" has proven to be a one-way street that disproportionally favors the company;
WHEREAS Delta pilots are the de facto negotiators for every other employee group, and must bear the associated costs in the form of unwritten "me too" bargaining;
WHEREAS Delta flight attendants have gained far more with the threat of a union than they ever could if they we're actually represented by a union;
BE IT RESOLVED that the Delta Air Line Pilots Association hereby disbands; Delta pilots are no longer members of ALPA; dues will no longer be provided; and Delta pilots will use the threat of an in-house union to negotiate the most favorable terms possible.
Adios to D/ALPA bloated power mangers, fat cats, conflicts of interest, and ineffective, self-serving unelected bureaucrats.
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They start with a dog drive...ahhh hunting in the south.
The acquarium in Chattanooga is pretty nice. I think they let you fish there with dynamite occasionally.
With all the big box sporting goods stores popping up in the Atlanta area, it ought to drive the pallet price of 7.62 down a little. Competitiveness and all.
Kidding, seriously!
Okay, there's a little truth in everything.
The way I read the memo is there are enough 737A's system wide but they are not in the right bases. If one bids out of SLC or CVG, that position will now go to SEA to whomever can hold it. It doesn't matter what the pilot who's bidding out of the category goes to, just that they are bidding out is all that is needed.
Denny
Denny
Sounds to me like the positions they have announced as "contingent" appear to be positions they will backfill, just to another base:
I think the winners in this AE are:
1.) ATL
2.) NYC
3.) SEA
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Runs with scissors
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I received a summons today for jury duty. I called scheduling (pilot support center closed) and they weren't terribly helpful -- the scheduler told me I would get the day of the summons off and that is it (reserve this month). As a commuter, there is no way I could stay in NYC until midnight and then make an 8am summons in San Antonio the following day but the scheduler didn't really care. I plan to call the PSC tomorrow and hopefully talk to somebody with both the authority to help and a little bit of common sense who will recognize the impossible situation scheduling is trying to put me in. I've read the PWA regarding legal duty (page 13-3 line 27); however, I'd like to hear from anybody else who had this happen while on reserve and see what it is reasonable to request/expect.
The fines for missing jury duty in San Antonio run from $100 to $1000 which I'd rather not subject myself to. Would it be reasonable to ask for either a positive space ticket home the night prior, or the day off prior to my summons to allow me the maximum number of chances to commute home? My jury duty begins on a Wednesday, no idea how long it will last -- would it be reasonable to ask for Tues-Fri as unscheduled legal duty and then update the PSC as the situation dictates? I'm not trying to game the system, just trying to figure out what would be considered the norm so I don't make a fool of myself and ask for something that my chief pilot would consider unreasonable. Not sure if it matters, but for the time in question, the reserve required is only 1, and the number available ranges from 10-13.
Thanks!
The fines for missing jury duty in San Antonio run from $100 to $1000 which I'd rather not subject myself to. Would it be reasonable to ask for either a positive space ticket home the night prior, or the day off prior to my summons to allow me the maximum number of chances to commute home? My jury duty begins on a Wednesday, no idea how long it will last -- would it be reasonable to ask for Tues-Fri as unscheduled legal duty and then update the PSC as the situation dictates? I'm not trying to game the system, just trying to figure out what would be considered the norm so I don't make a fool of myself and ask for something that my chief pilot would consider unreasonable. Not sure if it matters, but for the time in question, the reserve required is only 1, and the number available ranges from 10-13.
Thanks!
I won't even talk to them when I have an issue, instead, I call MY BOSS, the Chief pilot, let him work it out with those morons in scheduling.
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I received a summons today for jury duty. I called scheduling (pilot support center closed) and they weren't terribly helpful -- the scheduler told me I would get the day of the summons off and that is it (reserve this month). As a commuter, there is no way I could stay in NYC until midnight and then make an 8am summons in San Antonio the following day but the scheduler didn't really care. I plan to call the PSC tomorrow and hopefully talk to somebody with both the authority to help and a little bit of common sense who will recognize the impossible situation scheduling is trying to put me in. I've read the PWA regarding legal duty (page 13-3 line 27); however, I'd like to hear from anybody else who had this happen while on reserve and see what it is reasonable to request/expect.
The fines for missing jury duty in San Antonio run from $100 to $1000 which I'd rather not subject myself to. Would it be reasonable to ask for either a positive space ticket home the night prior, or the day off prior to my summons to allow me the maximum number of chances to commute home? My jury duty begins on a Wednesday, no idea how long it will last -- would it be reasonable to ask for Tues-Fri as unscheduled legal duty and then update the PSC as the situation dictates? I'm not trying to game the system, just trying to figure out what would be considered the norm so I don't make a fool of myself and ask for something that my chief pilot would consider unreasonable. Not sure if it matters, but for the time in question, the reserve required is only 1, and the number available ranges from 10-13.
Thanks!
The fines for missing jury duty in San Antonio run from $100 to $1000 which I'd rather not subject myself to. Would it be reasonable to ask for either a positive space ticket home the night prior, or the day off prior to my summons to allow me the maximum number of chances to commute home? My jury duty begins on a Wednesday, no idea how long it will last -- would it be reasonable to ask for Tues-Fri as unscheduled legal duty and then update the PSC as the situation dictates? I'm not trying to game the system, just trying to figure out what would be considered the norm so I don't make a fool of myself and ask for something that my chief pilot would consider unreasonable. Not sure if it matters, but for the time in question, the reserve required is only 1, and the number available ranges from 10-13.
Thanks!
Each state is different though.
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