Lee Moak
Lee Moak
Lee Moakis a government relations and public affairs consultant and one of the founders of The Moak Group, a public affairs, advocacy, and business consulting firm located in Washington, DC. Before joining Delta Air Lines and working his way up to a B-767 captain, Moak served multiple tours as a Marine Corps and Navy fighter pilot, and has most recently served as President of the Air Line Pilots Association, International, the world’s largest non-governmental aviation safety organization...
group pilot strike vote
It's my recommendation that the pilot group vote for the strike ballot.
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They're bankruptcy profiteering. They're taking advantage of the situation.
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I look at it unemotionally. Whatever action they take, we are going to respond appropriately.
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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.
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If our contract is rejected, we will strike.
act against delta intent management rejecting response seems
This response is an act of self-defense against a Delta management that seems intent on rejecting our contract.
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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.
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While I am hopeful that an agreement can be obtained, a decision by the neutral panel on the question of contract rejection is still a real possibility. Our position on a rejected contract has not changed. We will not work willingly without a contract.
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We remain committed to a consensual agreement, but we just have seen no movement. At this moment, management has refused to negotiate. They are still at $325 million.
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Unwilling to achieve a mutually agreeable solution through negotiations, their 1113 filing amounts to nothing less than an attempt to bully us into compliance. Management is letting their own unyielding and unreasonable demands dictate a path toward confrontation and further failure.
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It appears what they're doing is heading down a track to reject our contract.
hard party
If one party will not negotiate, it's hard to characterize it as a negotiation.
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You can consider today's actions an exercise and you can stand by for the real thing.
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All I know for sure, with 100 percent certainty, is our actions are very predictable. We will respond appropriately and decisively.