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Old 07-03-2011 | 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by golfandfly
OK, is this now ALPA national's fault, your own MEC, or your pilot group?

All Three.

ALPA National applies pressure to the MEC:
- They have to work with the NMB in the future, so they couldn't tell the flight attendant that brokered the deal to pound sand.
- No where in the 6-8 page back-to-work agreement did the "high powered" ALPA attorney put in place a contingency as to what would happen IF the membership did not ratify the TA.

MEC applies pressure to the pilot group:
-"We are in no-mans land if we don't ratify" (should have been fixed above) aka SCARE TACTICS
- MASSIVE SALES JOB on the TA- including misrepresenting other airlines' retirement plans to make NK's look ok in comparison.

Pilot Group:
- Some scared out of their minds
- Some had no confidence in the MEC
- Unfortunately many were apathetic
- A couple (inhabitants of this forum) actually liked it
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