From 2nd hand knowledge, I was told our grievance chair suggested to one of the accused to accept the Companies deal. He said he could make up the $$ that had to be paid back by getting his job back, and over time, he would recoup his $180000 or so.

That was before being fired. What they are doing now for the pilots, I dont know.

The Union, IMO, knows the LOA is/was a bad deal from the beginning. When HKG wasnt being filled shortly before the first bid was to close, the Company unilaterally made 2 improvements to the LOA without the input of the Union via side letter. The STV was changed and 500lbs was added to the move package. This was a change to the LOA unilaterally, with no Union input!! I suspect it was done to entice more FOs to bid HKG.

Anyway, a grievance was filed with the Union stating that the Company had violated the RLA by changing contractual language on their own.. The Union never followed up. And about a month later, instead of being up in arms about what the Company had done, our Union signed a side letter allowing these changes.

What is my point? Since the signing of LOA1, I think our Union has known that the LOA was crummy. But instead of having egg on their face, they have, quit a few times, been complicit in letting the Company do things that instead they should have been fighting against. And, we still have the same grievance chair as we did back then.