Originally Posted by
intrepidcv11
...I think I get it. Sorry it's been more complicated then Congress. Please include missing bulletin points.
1) Capt Morse had a path that would have leveraged the company into a JCBA
2) Pierce is a side dealing (explective) who boned all leverage to get a JCBA
3) Pierce did this because he has a dubious past
THUS
1) Pierce was probably promised a management job by Abbott for getting Cal PS
2) Pierce will take this job in the near term
TO PREVENT ABOVE
1) Pierce must be thrown out by Cal pilots some of whom are scabs but nevermind the majority of Cal pilots will never 'get it' unless Pierce is tossed
2) Pierce will hold no grudge against Cal pilot group for throwing him out after securing PS thus will not go to management out of spite
3) Pierce will learn lesson and fly the line for the rest of his career
THUS
Company will cave and Contract completed in short order
As a UAL pilot, I'm not a fan of the method that Capt Pierce chose to obtain profit sharing for the CAL pilots (which I'm glad they get BTW). However, to suggest that Capt Morse had some path to a JCBA is the joke of the year. The reason we DON'T have a JCBA is because Capt Morse totally dorked up the handling of our involvement with the DOJ at the beginning of this merger. To suggest that if Capt Pierce had acquiesced to the UAL MEC's preferred method of dealing with profit sharing we would be on the doorstep of a new contract is WAY out in left field. We might have an extended TPA, but it's RIDICULOUS to think we'd have a JCBA. Come on....