Lee Moak Quotations

Now they have informed us they too believe the plan will be terminated.

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.

If one party will not negotiate, it's hard to characterize it as a negotiation.

It appears what they're doing is heading down a track to reject our contract.

You can consider today's actions an exercise and you can stand by for the real thing.

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.

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.

This response is an act of self-defense against a Delta management that seems intent on rejecting our contract.

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.

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.

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.

To state that their proposal demonstrates a lack of commitment to reach an agreement would be a gross understatement.

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.

We didn't oppose the motion to void the stock options because they were worthless once management forced the company into bankruptcy anyway.

Delta pilots will strike if their contract is rejected.

Delta pilots continue to negotiate. But the management team has still not moved from their $325 million figure other than cosmetically.

That time is now. Management's continued intransigence at the negotiating table requires an appropriate response to a continued inappropriate and stubborn behavior.

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.

They're bankruptcy profiteering. They're taking advantage of the situation.

It's problematic when people want to call it negotiations and one side isn't negotiating.

It's my recommendation that the pilot group vote for the strike ballot.

Their single-element strategy seems to be one of 'bankruptcy profiteering' based in large part on the sacrifices of the Delta employees.

Their actions have put us in this position.

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.

If our contract is rejected, we will strike.

I look at it unemotionally. Whatever action they take, we are going to respond appropriately.

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.

All I know for sure, with 100 percent certainty, is our actions are very predictable. We will respond appropriately and decisively.