Delta posts $765M profit in 3Q
#152
So somehow, recklessly wasting your dues money by forcing your union to pay back all the flight pay loss money has become a rallying cry for an independent union. Yes, our plan is to waste your dues money when we don't have to. Why, because your pay will come from Delta Air Lines instead of Delta Air Lines. Awesome plan.
As has been stated many times, the fix to this is take all money from flight pay loss paid by the company and give it back to the pilot group as increased salary. Then our dues would increase the exact same amount so that our union guys would still get their flight pay loss, but they would get it from dues money...not management. Next straw man argument...
Carl
#153
More masterful work. Why "debit cards" and not "credit cards." Everyone knows that an organization the size of ALPA uses corporate credit cards for purchasing and cost accounting so "credit cards" doesn't sound menacing enough. No, they use "debit cards" because that conjures up images of cash payments with no accountability. I mean who really records all the times they buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks with a debit card. Who could ever track where these mysterious debit cards are being used?
Carl
#154
Uh.. I disagree with this in a sense. If DALPA were paying representatives, you and others would be squawking about the amount of work that you are getting for your money. I think that is a slippery slope too Carl.
#155
He starts with FACT all bolded as if that proves it. Here is quick fact. C2K pay for a 767 Captain was $268 per hour. At the time he posted this a 767 Captain's pay was $182 per hour. Average pay hours during C2K was 83 hours per pilot. ALPA uses 87 hours for committee members and 92 for the Negotiating Committee which is the only committee that are designated pilots.
C2K: 268 x 83 = $22,244
Average Committee guy : 182 x 87 = $15,834
Average Delta line holder : 182 x 87 = $15,834
Negotiating Committee : 182 x 92 = $16,744
If you count the per diem of $1,000 per month you do not get to C2K pay, no matter how you slice it. It is not a fact it is pure bunk. Plus, does anyone think that working more hours after bankruptcy is a pay raise? Please, someone tell me that the DPA doesn't think we get a pay raise when we work more hours.
C2K: 268 x 83 = $22,244
Average Committee guy : 182 x 87 = $15,834
Average Delta line holder : 182 x 87 = $15,834
Negotiating Committee : 182 x 92 = $16,744
If you count the per diem of $1,000 per month you do not get to C2K pay, no matter how you slice it. It is not a fact it is pure bunk. Plus, does anyone think that working more hours after bankruptcy is a pay raise? Please, someone tell me that the DPA doesn't think we get a pay raise when we work more hours.
Carl
#156
Nope, you are wrong, they don't get FPL for any of the LEC business Ron mentioned, which is what takes up most of their time. If you doubt me, call your rep and find out. They get paid what they hold and what they bid, just like every other line pilot. If they get FPL, it's for MEC business, such as an MEC meeting or lounge visit. Most of the work they do they do without any compensation.
Carl
#157
You mean the kind of hearsay you keep spewing that DPA is really all about overturning the SLI?
What's pure bunk is your blatantly false premise. Let's do the math again shall we? 70 hours per month at the C2K rate of $268 per hour = 18,760. 92 hours per month at the current rate of $182 per hour = 16,744. Plus the 1,000 stipend (which is tax free) = 17,744. This is a 1,016 dollar difference. Add in the credit cards/debit cards for expenses and you get very close to C2K pay...which is EXACTLY what TheManager said. I know you will call this more sleazy Karl Rove propaganda, but the truth is what it is.
Have fun with the rest of your ALPA funded/flight pay loss funded smear campaign dude. You'll make the far left very proud.
Carl
What's pure bunk is your blatantly false premise. Let's do the math again shall we? 70 hours per month at the C2K rate of $268 per hour = 18,760. 92 hours per month at the current rate of $182 per hour = 16,744. Plus the 1,000 stipend (which is tax free) = 17,744. This is a 1,016 dollar difference. Add in the credit cards/debit cards for expenses and you get very close to C2K pay...which is EXACTLY what TheManager said. I know you will call this more sleazy Karl Rove propaganda, but the truth is what it is.
Have fun with the rest of your ALPA funded/flight pay loss funded smear campaign dude. You'll make the far left very proud.
Carl
#158
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For Rove, his coup de grace was the South Carolina primary in 2000 when he was Bush's campaign manager running against John McCain. He produced a "push-poll" where voters were asked: "Would you be less likely to vote for John McCain if you knew he fathered an illegitimate black child."
At the time McCain was campaigning with his 8 year old adopted Bangladeshi daughter who was dark complected. The McCains adopted this child because she was literally starving to death in an orphanage. So Your Hero Karl tries to win votes on the back of an 8 year old girl while sliming the McCains' truly humanitarian acts. Now is that right wing or left wing or is that just inhumane and sleazy?
Murdoch's flagship newspaper managed to hack into the cell phone voice mail of a young woman who had been abducted and killed. The search was still ongoing as it was not known if she was alive or dead. After her voice mailbox became full, the Sun reporters actually deleted voice mails so they could hear more messages left for her.
By deleting the voice mails, these sleaze balls gave false hope to her family that she was still alive and checking her own voice mail.
This is not right wing or left wing, these are two examples of the sleaziest type of rumor mongers and tabloid trash. This has nothing to do with right wing/left wing it has to do with morality and ethics. I don't know about you Carl, but if that was my daughter that had her voice mail hacked, that reporter would have his head caved in. Maybe you are more forgiving than I am.
It is only small minded people that have to try to pigeon hole every argument into some pre conceived framework like the current left wing right wing arguments. I guess that is where you are most comfortable.
I just want to make it clear, you are trying to compare a pilot making 70 hours a month at one pay rate versus a pilot making 92 hours a month at a lower pay rate. Somehow this makes sense to you, for me it is just more jibberish. By the way, the "stipend" as you call it is taxable, yet one more falsehood distributed by Carl, hey, why stop when you are on a roll.
#159
Carl
#160
Of course it is fact...in your world (and Carl's world I suppose); and no matter how much sense the rest of Carl's post makes, it is these emotional, Ad Hominem attacks that is so detestable and reminiscent of the USAPA movement, that assures the ultimate failure of DPA....of course, that is just my opinion (not a "fact")
Carl
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