100% agree with you on the influence. Unless your one of 4 on the respective M.C.'s, our direct voices are moot to the panel of Arbitrators that will hear the unresolved issues regarding the SLI.
Your's is Pay-Bands, mine is SCOPE. You have a vote to use on what YOU feel needs to be included/excluded on any future TA. Glad that you intend to show up on TA Day when it arrives.

As far as Letter's/Pay-Bands, not sure if he will or not. As we've seen on this site specifically, the PB issue is something that has been debated in nauseam. The topic is obviously something that the CAL & UAL Pilots strongly disagree on. Both sides of that issue have heard each other loud & clear. Up to this point, it's something that the two cultures will not agree.....Sad to say, and not trivializing the topic.....Agree to disagree.

Special, it's something you choose......Do you choose to live on the Boards (APC/"Crack-Pipe/ect...) to maintain/receieve all of your info as the "holy grail"?? By most accounts on limited interaction, you appear to be a smart man.....so I would guess not.

When I have a question on a issue, especially with the Merger related questions, I have NOT a problem dialing the cell phone/sending an email to any of my Rep's/MEC Officers. In doing so, more times than not, you can get accurate info/or at least have them steer you in the right direction on where to find it/or who to speak with further. Do I take ALL the info as 'gospel'?? NOPE!! You'd be an "ID-10-T" to not "Trust, but verifiy" ALL of those interactions.

BTW....Did you speak with UAL's, Dave Smith, regarding further infomation/clarification on the extent of the rewrite?