28 Quotes by Lee Moak

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.