Seggy
Well-Known Member
Dear Fellow Pilot,
Mediated negotiations resumed this week in Baltimore. I spent the week with our Negotiating Committee to support their efforts. While not physically at the bargaining table, I was with the committee for all their deliberations and did address management’s negotiating team on
the first day. My message was simple: it is time to conclude these negotiations.
To do so, we needed to see significant movement. We restarted the negotiating process almost one year ago by focusing on the sections of the rejected tentative agreement the pilots found objectionable. One of the last “toxic” items to deal with is management’s proposal to modify profit sharing.
When the National Mediation Board (NMB) set the schedule to meet this week, it was prepared to continue mediated talks the following week if sufficient progress was being
made. For me, and our Negotiating Committee, a “go-no go” item was management’s profit sharing proposal.
Unfortunately, management’s latest proposal retains changes to profit sharing we cannot accept and they have not addressed several of our must-have items. Their present table
positions ignore the exceptional contributions and investments of the pilot group during bankruptcy, through the merger, the recent computer outage, and during the current
unprecedented success of our airline. Since there was not enough progress to warrant a meeting, I cancelled the special MEC meeting scheduled for next week. Instead, your representatives will be in the lounges.
It’s time for management to get serious at the bargaining table. Once again, I am asking for your help. Look for a Get Serious call-to-action next week. We must send a strong message to
Delta management that the time to conclude this agreement is now. As noted above, your elected representatives will be in the pilot lounges next week to answer your questions and provide information on how you can help. Please take the time to get engaged. The process
thrives when pilots are actively involved in the direction of their union. Look for upcoming SPSC communications detailing activities and events where you can participate.
It is way past time for these negotiations to be concluded in a manner that reflects the contribution we add to Delta. Everyone else has been rewarded: other employees,
shareholders and management. The MEC will meet in Atlanta beginning September 19.
I can speak with certainty that the MEC will be resolutely united in its message: Delta, pay your pilots.
Mediated negotiations resumed this week in Baltimore. I spent the week with our Negotiating Committee to support their efforts. While not physically at the bargaining table, I was with the committee for all their deliberations and did address management’s negotiating team on
the first day. My message was simple: it is time to conclude these negotiations.
To do so, we needed to see significant movement. We restarted the negotiating process almost one year ago by focusing on the sections of the rejected tentative agreement the pilots found objectionable. One of the last “toxic” items to deal with is management’s proposal to modify profit sharing.
When the National Mediation Board (NMB) set the schedule to meet this week, it was prepared to continue mediated talks the following week if sufficient progress was being
made. For me, and our Negotiating Committee, a “go-no go” item was management’s profit sharing proposal.
Unfortunately, management’s latest proposal retains changes to profit sharing we cannot accept and they have not addressed several of our must-have items. Their present table
positions ignore the exceptional contributions and investments of the pilot group during bankruptcy, through the merger, the recent computer outage, and during the current
unprecedented success of our airline. Since there was not enough progress to warrant a meeting, I cancelled the special MEC meeting scheduled for next week. Instead, your representatives will be in the lounges.
It’s time for management to get serious at the bargaining table. Once again, I am asking for your help. Look for a Get Serious call-to-action next week. We must send a strong message to
Delta management that the time to conclude this agreement is now. As noted above, your elected representatives will be in the pilot lounges next week to answer your questions and provide information on how you can help. Please take the time to get engaged. The process
thrives when pilots are actively involved in the direction of their union. Look for upcoming SPSC communications detailing activities and events where you can participate.
It is way past time for these negotiations to be concluded in a manner that reflects the contribution we add to Delta. Everyone else has been rewarded: other employees,
shareholders and management. The MEC will meet in Atlanta beginning September 19.
I can speak with certainty that the MEC will be resolutely united in its message: Delta, pay your pilots.
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