Originally Posted by
SpecialTracking
The first paragraph is simply delusional. J Pos wanted to get PS for the CAL pilots within the framework of the TPA. When that avenue was no longer available, he went outside the TPA thereby violating the status quo. To say that a contractual grievance was used to get $40 million is like buying a a pencil for $3k and getting a Superbowl ticket thrown in for closing the deal. The pencil is not worth $3k and your grievance was not worth $40 million worth of harm.
Sorry, but you can't even compare the two since the unknown is what the arbitrator would have decided in regards to monetary penalty should he have sided with CALALPA.
"J Pos"? Really? How childish. I see all this dumped on Jay, but he takes direction from the MEC and can't make those decisions without their approval. Yet, I see not one complaint about our MEC on here. I'm not saying there should be either, but trying to figure out the logic of dumping everything on a guy who basically does as the MEC instructs him to do.
Along those lines, why is your pilot group not calling out Wendy and your MEC for their complete and utter disaster in handling the T&PA extension talks? Agreements to approach it one way and then at the last minute put extra requirements in it? CAL pay rates? Extra money equal to CAL pilot profit sharing? Things that were outside the original T&PA to begin with.
You may have an issue with the process, but the process involved both sides and only had the outcome it did when unrealistic demands by the UAL pilots were presented to management. Of course they were going to say "no" going forward. But it would have been nice in unity if the UAL pilots had given up their PS to keep us on equal footing, right? Didn't think so.