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...
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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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They're bankruptcy profiteering. They're taking advantage of the situation.
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That time is now. Management's continued intransigence at the negotiating table requires an appropriate response to a continued inappropriate and stubborn behavior.
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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.
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Delta pilots will strike if their contract is rejected.
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Delta pilots continue to negotiate. But the management team has still not moved from their $325 million figure other than cosmetically.
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It appears what they're doing is heading down a track to reject our contract.
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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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Their single-element strategy seems to be one of 'bankruptcy profiteering' based in large part on the sacrifices of the Delta employees.
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Their actions have put us in this position.
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I look at it unemotionally. Whatever action they take, we are going to respond appropriately.
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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.
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If our contract is rejected, we will strike.
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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.