Our problem is that we have a union that has been completely co-opted by our management. Our union will not talk to us about our own survey results, and will not even discuss the opener after it's exchanged with management. Our union continues to lie about SWAPA's pay rates and lied about why they couldn't publish the contract comparisons with our joint venture partners like Air France.

For us to gain an industry leading contract, we will have to fight our union as hard as management because there's no difference between the two. We're trying to vote out ALPA and install a real union before negotiations begin, but we're still 2500 votes short. We have a very tough road ahead.

Carl