I guess when you leave out 80% of the facts it could look dumb. When you don't consider that Pierce agreed to each and every proposal, that they agreed to work as a team and back each other up, yes, that might look dumb.

When you add in the truth and facts, then what it looks like is what it is. Wendy Morse was, if anything, naive (as WERE the United MEC and pilots) for assuming that Jay Pierce was a man of his word, a unionist, and could be relied upon to not step over their backs for a few pieces of silver. They assumed that Pierce would not exhibit scab-like behavior.

Now what we have is the average CAL pilot getting maybe $3,000 to $5,000, a one time buy off which was a bargain for the company in terms of causing this kind of divisiveness. Pierce went right for the bait.

There is ONLY one way to win this game. CALMEC and UALMEC must stand together and demonstrate in action all of the pretty things Pierce has said they would. He has demonstrated that he is incapable. I could not fault the UALMEC if they wanted to have nothing to do with him from here on out.