The terms of the current concessionary contract have got worse under current CAL leadership. By default, the contract must accommodate an onerous PBS that undermines pilot seniority. The PBS is widely despised by the majority of CAL pilots. Despite hundreds if not thousands of complaints, the founder of CAL PBS has twice been promoted. First replacing PBS Chairman who was fired for FLP abuse and to his current position as Chairman of the Negotiating Committee. This junior pilot has never negotiated a contract in his life and has been fumbling for the past several years. He does not have to use his own PBS because when he does decide to fly, he "cherry picks" his trips.

2. Only a simpleton thinks labor compensation negotiations are "relatively simple." Even if we use your simpleton excuse, that does not explain away negotiating for more compensation. Pay issues are so complex that millions of dollars are spent on consultants, accountants, finance experts, etc. On many occasions these things are decided by an arbitrator who has to use complex formula, legal precedent and a heavy dose of common sense. Only a fool thinks compensation negotiations are "simple."

3. First of all, CAL ALPA Rules & By-Laws give their MEC absolute authority to do basically anything they want to do without a vote. Some wrongly think that a poll or a survey about these things is a standing vote. They are not. Regardless, Jay Pierce has never asked for pilot help, opinion or a vote on anything that he has tried to force through the MEC. Pierce doesn't care what the pilots think or want. In any case, your statement assumes that the majority of 4,800 pilots will agree with Pierce and settle for whatever bone the company throws. Suppose Pierce does give our pilots a vote and they say "No." Then what? How many more months or years do they negotiate? Therefore, my statement stands that Pierce has no right predicting the contract will settled sometime this year. He has no idea. If he does know then he already knows the outcome which means he will be forcing our pilots into something they probably do not want.

I have a classic education which means that I know logic, I know how to use logic and therefore am able to think in a rational manner. Your ill-logic and wild reckless statements are easily refuted.

See if you can figure out this simple logical analogy. "There is a black spot on the tip of chicken-****. No matter how you try to explain away that black spot, it's still chicken ****." Comprende? Do you get the point?