Everyone. This is coming from our brothers and sisters at UCAL who presently are further along the road in negotiations with their management. We will be facing much of the same tactics their management is employing against them now; its just business and its text book. Just remove the name Jeff from the post below and insert Ed and/or Richard. Our resolve and unity will have to be rock solid for us to achieve restoration.
If it is, I sincerely believe we can. Don't sell yourselves short or underestimate the power of a collective acting force of 12,000.

Have a Happy 4th.


Don't fool yourselves into thinking Jeff doesn't get it because he's not doing what you want.
Smisek graduated top of his class at both Princeton and Harvard Law and was a top
securities lawyer at Vinson & Elkins before Bethune recruited him.
Bethune has stated multiple times that he's one of the sharpest people he knows.

He knows exactly what he's doing and that is to fully
take advantage of pilot weaknesses to cut costs via any and all means.
He believes this is viable because the costs we've created through minimal resistance
are minor compared to the savings they've reaped. This has to change.
Basically, he gets it, that we're weak and easily influenced by fear and greed.
It's time we make him get it, absolutely and completely, that we're unbreakable this time.
Then, and only then, will he move on to other cost savings and revenue improvements.