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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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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I look at it unemotionally. Whatever action they take, we are going to respond appropriately.
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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.
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If one party will not negotiate, it's hard to characterize it as a negotiation.
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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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It appears what they're doing is heading down a track to reject our contract.
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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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It's problematic when people want to call it negotiations and one side isn't negotiating.
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It's my recommendation that the pilot group vote for the strike ballot.
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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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If our contract is rejected, we will strike.
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Delta pilots will strike if their contract is rejected.
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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.