All along, our biggest problem has been that the management team did not recognize that a 50 percent pay cut in a year and a termination of their pension plan ... if that wasn't enough to be the tipping point, I don't know what is. So, I believe that they (Delta management) recognized that. |
All I know for sure, with 100 percent certainty, is our actions are very predictable. We will respond appropriately and decisively. |
Delta pilots continue to negotiate. But the management team has still not moved from their $325 million figure other than cosmetically. |
Delta pilots will strike if their contract is rejected. |
Faced with this management onslaught our only choice is self defense. We must defend the concept of the pilot working agreement itself. All legal means will be considered. |
I look at it unemotionally. Whatever action they take, we are going to respond appropriately. |
If management succeeds in rejecting our contract, we will strike, and we will strike at a time and place of our choosing. It's truly an act of self-defense. |
If one party will not negotiate, it's hard to characterize it as a negotiation. |
If our contract is rejected, we will strike. |
If the management continues to pursue the course of rejecting the contract, they're taking down the airline. Our lawyers tell us we can strike, we prepared for a strike, we will strike. |
If they refuse to negotiate and our contract is rejected, therefore we would not willingly work without a contract. Therefore, we would choose the time and place to perform a job action. |
It appears what they're doing is heading down a track to reject our contract. |
It's my recommendation that the pilot group vote for the strike ballot. |
It's problematic when people want to call it negotiations and one side isn't negotiating. |
Now they have informed us they too believe the plan will be terminated. |