Here's the respect that Delta gives it's retiree's when there's no contract or even a sense of common courtesy!
Rob Kight's email to the DALRC Board
From: Kight, Rob
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:39 AM
To: Bettie Asip; Bill Hutcheson; Bob Werner; Cathy Cone; Duff O'Dell; John
Bozinny; Jon Maynard; Judy Bergstrom; Paul Warrick Cc: Vallo, Maureen
Subject: Thursday meeting
Attached is a letter that we are publishing on the Delta Retiree Connection. It explains that, due the manner in which the DALRC Board continues to conduct itself, Ed will not attend the meeting that we have scheduled for Thursday afternoon. I remain available to meet with you and to discuss directly why we believe your recent communications are not in the best interests of retired or active Delta people. Shortly, Maureen will send you further information about the free tickets for those of you flying in for the meeting. I look forward to seeing you Thursday.
Rob Kight
DALRC Board Reply
Rob,
The DALRC Board was very disappointed to receive your email today advising us Ed has chosen not to meet with us "due to the manner in which our Board has conducted itself." Our goal is and always has been to provide information to the 35,000+ Delta Retirees and, on their behalf, to lobby to protect and preserve the benefits and pensions of all the people that worked hard and earned those benefits throughout our careers. Our publications and messages to retirees are not filtered or altered by attorneys trying to put a spin on things, we simply "tell it like it is", providing factual information, and that can be discomforting if the message does not paint a picture that aligns with the picture painted by Delta's leadership.
Having a different view of an issue does not make the members of our Board unprofessional as Ed has implied but it certainly adds credence to the importance of sitting down with the DALRC Board to discuss our differences where each side has the opportunity to express their opinions and positions on the issues so that if possible, we can work together to resolve those differences. That is the professional and productive way to handle a difference of opinion in our view.
While we appreciate your offer to meet with us instead of Ed, the questions we wanted to pose could only be answered by him or Richard Anderson as the head spokespersons of our company. Please cancel the reservations you made for our Board members to travel to ATL tomorrow. If, in the future, Ed or Richard decides to meet with us, we will gladly reschedule.
This message along with yours will be posted on our DALRC.org website. Our fellow retirees were expecting to hear from us regarding the proposed meeting with Ed and they will want to know why it was cancelled.
Thank you.
The DALRC Board
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For Further Information:
DALRC
http://www.dalrc.org
Rob Kight's email to the DALRC Board
From: Kight, Rob
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:39 AM
To: Bettie Asip; Bill Hutcheson; Bob Werner; Cathy Cone; Duff O'Dell; John
Bozinny; Jon Maynard; Judy Bergstrom; Paul Warrick Cc: Vallo, Maureen
Subject: Thursday meeting
Attached is a letter that we are publishing on the Delta Retiree Connection. It explains that, due the manner in which the DALRC Board continues to conduct itself, Ed will not attend the meeting that we have scheduled for Thursday afternoon. I remain available to meet with you and to discuss directly why we believe your recent communications are not in the best interests of retired or active Delta people. Shortly, Maureen will send you further information about the free tickets for those of you flying in for the meeting. I look forward to seeing you Thursday.
Rob Kight
DALRC Board Reply
Rob,
The DALRC Board was very disappointed to receive your email today advising us Ed has chosen not to meet with us "due to the manner in which our Board has conducted itself." Our goal is and always has been to provide information to the 35,000+ Delta Retirees and, on their behalf, to lobby to protect and preserve the benefits and pensions of all the people that worked hard and earned those benefits throughout our careers. Our publications and messages to retirees are not filtered or altered by attorneys trying to put a spin on things, we simply "tell it like it is", providing factual information, and that can be discomforting if the message does not paint a picture that aligns with the picture painted by Delta's leadership.
Having a different view of an issue does not make the members of our Board unprofessional as Ed has implied but it certainly adds credence to the importance of sitting down with the DALRC Board to discuss our differences where each side has the opportunity to express their opinions and positions on the issues so that if possible, we can work together to resolve those differences. That is the professional and productive way to handle a difference of opinion in our view.
While we appreciate your offer to meet with us instead of Ed, the questions we wanted to pose could only be answered by him or Richard Anderson as the head spokespersons of our company. Please cancel the reservations you made for our Board members to travel to ATL tomorrow. If, in the future, Ed or Richard decides to meet with us, we will gladly reschedule.
This message along with yours will be posted on our DALRC.org website. Our fellow retirees were expecting to hear from us regarding the proposed meeting with Ed and they will want to know why it was cancelled.
Thank you.
The DALRC Board
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For Further Information:
DALRC
http://www.dalrc.org
