Grassroots Efforts at DL for ACS and FAs, no personal attacks.

[WorldTraveler]

30% of them or so are Stepford Wives. Black eyes and little pink dresses cooking Meat Loaf and Cookies for the Toy Maker Anderson.

If you are not paid than you must have a mental issue with how much you post and how many think your comments are stupid.

Better to admit you're paid than to admit you're nuts and maybe have to seek help.

wow. just wow.

that my dear DL FA friends, is what a labor organizer thinks of you.

 

[700UW]

And you are the one posting threats against DL FAs.

And We is TWU.

 

[WorldTraveler]

He is a proponent of organized labor.

What he posted is an insult. Nothing short of it.

 

[700UW]

And you threatening DL FAs is ok?

He isn't an organizer, nor an IAM member nor involved with the drive.

You must be getting paid or have a serious obsession.

You constantly post lies and misinformation even after you were shown to be wrong

 

[BABABOOY]

wow. just wow.that my dear DL FA friends, is what a labor organizer thinks of you.

This is just a small sample of the many attacks.
They sure know how to endear themselves to garner votes.
But yet another great example to not vote in the continued drama
That the IAM brings.

 

[robbedagain]

like you have never insulted folks before there....       So what if he is a proponent of organized labor..   companies like DL are currently free to impose what they see at any time..    not to mention they can mess around with things such as PS  and that's been proven before       

 

[Airlinelifer]

WT, Keep posting please!
 
Your posts add fuel to the fire. 
 
and
 
Thank you!

 

[700UW]

This is just a small sample of the many attacks.
They sure know how to endear themselves to garner votes.
But yet another great example to not vote in the continued drama
That the IAM brings.

So what is your excuse when you insult and attack?
 
And dont  say you havent, as we know you have.

 

[WeAAsles]

He is a proponent of organized labor.What he posted is an insult. Nothing short of it.

Boo hoo get a tissue.

 

[700UW]

 

[Kev3188]

 

This is just a small sample of the many attacks.
They sure know how to endear themselves to garner votes.
But yet another great example to not vote in the continued drama
That the IAM brings.

I'd like to know how you felt when someone made a direct comparison between the IAM and the Nazi party on IFS 360, including posting swastikas.

Was that an attack, or an "endearment" to garner votes?

How 'bout the screenshot of Samuel Jackson from Pulp Fiction pointing a gun at the viewer with the caption "say union one more time!"

 

[BABABOOY]

"

This is the first I'm hearing this, if true it's no better then they are. Doesn't help their cause one bit.

 

[WorldTraveler]

turning to business issues behind why some think DL FAs need a union compared to their peers at other airlines,

here is a quote from AA's earnings call transcript.

"We expect to end 2015 with close to a flat aircraft count while we continue our fleet replacement program. We do expect to take delivery of 74 mainline aircraft and 50 regional aircraft and plan to retire or park 104 mainline aircraft and 22 regional aircraft"

so, despite all of this potential that the new AA supposedly has, their fleet plan envisions SHRINKING mainline and GROWING their regional carriers, largely thru the use of large RJs.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/13024589/3/american-airlines-aal-earnings-report-q4-2014-conference-call-transcript.html

for the year ended 2014, AA added 2.4% of mainline capacity while regional carrier capacity was up slightly.

but AA intends to reverse that trend based on its fleet plan. AA might have efficiencies they can squeeze out of their mainline fleet by reducing the number of aircraft but the growth of regional carrier aircraft without an increase in the number of mainline aircraft will result in outsourcing AA jobs to AA's regional carriers.

in complete contrast, DL's fleet plan continues to involve removing regional carrier capacity and replacing it with mainline aircraft, something DL has been doing for several years.
for 2014, DL increased mainline ASMs by 4% while reducing regional carrier by 4.7%.

UA has been doing the very same thing so AA will be in company.

when AA people talk about how much the union has done for them, it should not be lost on anyone that AA will be outsourcing flying esp. on the domestic system to its regional carriers.

in complete contrast, DL is bringing flying back to mainline.

many of us said for years that the AA/US merger was producing a domestic system that had too many hubs and too much internal network competition between hubs and would have to result in pulling down flying to make those hubs work.

AA mgmt. has confirmed that thru its fleet plan; although they aren't giving up on hubs just yet, they are outsourcing more and more of that flying to regional carriers.

DL FAs need to consider what is the norm at AA and UA and how unions have been powerless to stop that trend.

in contrast, DL's strategy has been to close regional carrier heavy hubs in order to build up hubs that could support more DL mainline flying.

the two strategies couldn't be more different.

 

[Kev3188]

Not sure why people here insist on perceiving the F/A's corps as a bunch of dilettantes, but I'm certain that the majority of DL F/A's recognize the dynamics here are unlike any other, and will negotiate accordingly.
 
They got this.

 

[Kev3188]

This is the first I'm hearing this, if true it's no better then they are. Doesn't help their cause one bit.

 
Believe it. It was left "up" on 360 for hours...