It wasn't highly controversial. It was a political hatchet job, and thanks for pointing out the rebuttals. We've been good at hatchet jobs post-contract. Bill Brown and Chuck Giambusso, political polar opposites, received the same treatement after their Section 6 ratifications.

Even in the preamble Ryan talks about the MEC Chairman's personal gain...yet the MEC Chairman didn't take the early retirement that supposedly was to his advantage. He retired at age 60. Also, one of the negotiating committee members was extremely junior (BG), and he was in front of the MEC during the whole process.

POS96 had more to do with bad management and a divided union (remember PPA, the large group of non-members and the 10% of our pilots that took voluntary wage cuts) than any malfeasance.