Originally Posted by
BusJock
CAL has never cared about UAL or it's dedicated employees...............Now you ask a CAL pilot and you will find them chomping on the bit to transfer to DEN and ORD over our dead bodies! History has shown this at CAL............... They will pick the UAL pilots bones in a heartbeat....................... They are getting OUR bankruptcy profit sharing, they are getting our domiciles and we get......ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Whoa there. You think CAL cares about it's employees either. HA! Your learning.
Now, lets take a walk down memory lane................UAL and CAL in Denver. How about staging United ticket agents next to Continental's ticket counters approaching them to attempt to switch them to fly on United? How about bogus bookings and re-bookings on Continental from United even though the paxs were still on United flights? How about several months of ticket hold backs and then dumping them all at once on Continental to continue to try and bleed their cash reserves? How about taking Continental paxs rental cars or blocking the lot? How about the buttons ALL the United employees wore with clever little terms like, "One less airline can make a difference", or "Screw Continental", or "TORQUE"? How about the taxi speed coming and going to the gate or the intentional cutoffs on taxiways from United aircraft? I'm not even go over the "brain surgeon" episode with Frontier.
Look, no one at CAL is wishing you or any other UAL pilot/employee any ill will. I'm simply pointing out that before you go down this road, you might want to look in your rear view mirror first.
We are in this together. I don't like that we had to give up the possibility of another grievance but a lessened victory is still a victory. How would you have reacted if we didn't get profit sharing but we won the 767 grievance and the arbitrator awarded the CAL pilots only? This is not going to be a perfect or easy merger but throwing stones like that sure as hell isn't helping.