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 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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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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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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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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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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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 continue to negotiate. But the management team has still not moved from their $325 million figure other than cosmetically.
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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 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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You can consider today's actions an exercise and you can stand by for the real thing.
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If one party will not negotiate, it's hard to characterize it as a negotiation.
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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.