Originally Posted by
dumbfounded
I disagree - If the MEC would give the pilot group direction and purpose, the pilot group will follow - that's just the way it works.
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Do you really think the ALPA MEC has abandoned you?? Have the UAL ALPA MEC and the CAL ALPA MEC even talked and gotten it together??
Could be that's the question that needs to be asked because it appears that they have NOT yet gotten a strategy together yet. Which is playing RIGHT into the Schemes of the UAL Negotiating group. I thinks there was some Naievete happening on the part of some of the CAL Pilots because I believe they had Far better relations with CAL than the UAL Pilots had with UAL. But NOW it appears the "UAL Hoodlums" are in the Negotiating driver's seat and their AIM is more to
Subjugate than to Negotiate.
I think instead of picking fights about what airplane should be paid What you guys wasted a LOT of effort in NOT recognizing your TRUE enemy. (UAL MANAGEMENT)
Because ALL of these Schemes you're now having heartburn about?? came out of UAL, and CAL is "along for the Ride". If you were to Talk to Each other you Might recognize your Enemy for What they are and WHO they are. Because when they Strike like "Thieves in the Night"?
They're going to Stick it to ALL of you in One Fell Swoop. Play off the Furghlouees against Junior CAL pilots, Play off the 70 seat Regionals against the Active CAL pilots. Order 200 more Narrow bodies and set them for the UAL Pilots for recall... Play against the 70 seat Scope clause. A LITTANY of "skullduggery". The Best defense? Cameraderie! Not this Crape I've read recently "Welcome to United Flight xxx,Flown by Proud Continental Pilots?? Are you Kidding?? Why don't you just give them a clean Sword to Chop off your Head?? I sure hope you guys Stand Strong. I Don't know Who you've
Been Dealing with?? But you're dealing with REAL Cutthroats Now!! They're NOT afraid of ALPA ONE IOTA. You gotta stand Together or they'll Cut your Group to Ribbons.
And EVERY Grad school in the COUNTRY is teaching "How to Rob Unions 101" I read a History book recently and in the early 1900's the Business Barons expressed a mentality that
LABOR (you and me) should Not try to Rise above their
"Station" in Life. (Sounds like the Republicans of today doesn't it??)
I wish you ALL the Best for the Coming Holidays...