"Also a bulletin out for 737 instructor, with an added paragraph that if an F/O is selected, he will be trained up to a captain, and if he flies a trip, it will be only with management in the right seat."

In the UAL 1981 "Blue Skies" contract the professional instructors were replaced with TCAs (Training Check Airmen) who were by seniority F/Os. They were trained as Captains in the airplane they instructed and checked in. They also received a full UAL 121 Captain line check by the FAA in the left seat.

Out of these TCAs came the first scab captains in the UAL strike of 1985. They lead the way across the picket line.

Could UAL/CAL mgmt be planning something for 2012? Sure looks fishy and considering UAL has a PI agreement which prevents such qualifications I would expect t see all the CAL F/O Instructors being similarly qualified.

If we don't learn from history shame on us!