uh, you have scope, Kev.
You can't seem to grasp that the same argument you and ad astra want to use about the cost of DL to offer something better than what other airlines and their unionized workers have INCLUDES work rules and scope. DL could easily reduce its number of cities that work AW or BW work to the same protections and within a short time the number of cities that AA/US and UA permit under their CBAs but DL is EXCEEDING those levels now because they are not interested in adding fuel to a unionization fire. All DL employees have to do is look at the outsourcing that is happening at AA and UA and even WN and the company has to do just one better for DL employees to be unable to argue they are any worse off.
It also doesn't change that ramp is the most easily outsourced major workgroup at any airline. Sorry to break the news to you. There are other jobs which other carriers staff with their own personnel including AW work but not BW. Get an A&P license or at the minimum learn how to work with the public. DL and other carriers have and will have far more of their own people in AW work.
swamt,
the ATE UP part comes from 700's repeated attempts to fail to acknowledge that DL's non-pilot, non-contract employees ALSO received pay raises equal to or higher than what ALPA was offered in every year except the first full year of their current contract.
For the 3% or so pay raise above that level, DL was allowed to add scores of new large RJs and save hundreds of millions of dollars in engine maintenance on the CRJ fleet that would have been required if the fleet had not been rapidly retired as it is happening now.
DL called the pilot contract COST NEUTRAL. ALPA gave DL a whole lot of scheduling flexibility and staffing efficiencies, cost savings on the CRJs, and the ability to buy more large RJs.
No other group could have imposed the same restrictions on DL.
Further, the continued PILOT ENVY is a sign of how desperate the IAM is. They no longer can accurately compare DL ground personnel to their peers at other airlines so they try to create socialist-inspired class envy.
The IAM will never win and the depth to which they have to resort to find even a partially correct fact is appalling for a union that thinks they have even a snowball's chance in Hades of winning a representation vote.
When the IAM and its peers can fix the continued erosion of pay, benefits, and scope at the carriers it does protect and restores those things at carriers it represents, no one with even half a brain will seriously consider a union at DL as viable.
The fact that no union has managed to even schedule a vote in 5 years since the merger speaks volumes about what the union has actually accomplished.
