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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What passengers should do in mid-April is to fly Delta Air Lines. I believe reasonable members of senior management will take control of this situation and we will get a settlement.
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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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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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We seek a consensual comprehensive agreement, but we will not be bullied into accepting the overreaching demands currently on the table. We will not capitulate to these demands based on a fear of what may lie ahead. We understand the risks. If our contract is rejected, we will strike.
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To state that their proposal demonstrates a lack of commitment to reach an agreement would be a gross understatement.
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We didn't oppose the motion to void the stock options because they were worthless once management forced the company into bankruptcy anyway.
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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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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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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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If they refuse to negotiate and our contract is rejected, therefore we would not willingly work without a contract. Therefore, we would choose the time and place to perform a job action.
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Now they have informed us they too believe the plan will be terminated.
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It's problematic when people want to call it negotiations and one side isn't negotiating.