The company agreed to the TPA last August with the promise of producing a JCBA by October 2010. They then engaged ALPA just enough to avoid a loud ALPA opposition voiced to the DOJ and subsequently received merger approval in October. In other words, ALPA got played.

So now U-CON comes to the union with a new promise while the old promise is still in effect. If we've learned one thing, it's that management lies (although I think we've all learned more than that).

I don't want "just a contract", I want an industry leading contract absent of ANY concessions, airtight scope, and with full retro-pay. Until that happens, UCON can choke on their lack of operational integration/efficiency.