Originally Posted by
ewrbasedpilot
The UAL pilots ARE getting profit sharing (hard to believe since they keep telling everyone they're getting NOTHING), but our attorneys negotiated NOTHING for us, so the UNION got it for us in return for the 767 grievance concerning 76's being parked/sold. I know this irritates the crap out of some, but I'm tired of giving management MORE money to pad their accounts, which is what the UAL group seems to have no problem with. (Guess where the $40,000,000 was headed if we DIDN'T take it?) I know for a fact that some of the guys at CAL who say they DON'T want profit sharing are the very FIRST to b*t^h about how they are getting screwed out of a minute of flying time and go run file a pay claim..............and yet when the union gets them a check for a couple thousand bucks, they DON'T WANT IT! Unfricking believable! UAL tends to give things away (scope comes to mind), so instead of us giving our PS away, we'll take it. Sorry if that offends some of you.
I believe Your MEC chairman traded something for PS. My belief, nothing more. I have a hard time believing that the grievance was a straight trade, although that makes for a convenient cover that makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy. No company willingly trades 80:1 on a possible 500K award if they litigate poorly and considers it "even". Certainly not UCH. They fight tooth and nail for every fraction of a penny not going into a management pocket. So, in my mind, the question becomes what was sold? What did the company buy with 39.5 million?
These kind of transactions aren't really "recorded". I suspect it had something to do with cooperation from one MEC chairman. Any cooperation from an MEC chairman that cost nearly 40 million is the kind that doesn't benefit us regular line pilots. Just saying. Then again, maybe the company really was scared of the coming Armageddon when Cal pilots didn't get their non-negotiated pieces of silver...
BTW, you're right, UAL pilots completely hosed up scope. No question. So did most of the rest of the industry. You guys did a fantastic job of maintaining it at 50 seats. Dead serious.
I'm all for hoping that I'm wrong about Pierce and that we'll have an industry leading JCBA in the next year. I just don't have any confidence that we're getting closer to that.