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Originally Posted by
Ottolillienthal
Re-read the post. I listed 3 things.
We will very publicly state that this merger is NOT going well and the the pilot group is NOT happy with the progress of the negotiations and is PREPARED TO STRIKE. That is exactly the message sent by asking for a release from the NMB. To date, we have not sent that message. The primary audiences are the financial community, politicians, and the employees of UAL.
I don't know why your committee members do what they do.... Please enlighten me on this subject, you clearly have something to say.
The JCBA process, at this point, is COMPLETELY OUT OF OUR CONTROL! The company has a long term plan that they've been executing and they plan to give us a JCBA AS LATE AS POSSIBLE. We need to change their calculus (without a job action!). I'd be interested to hear how you think this will 'stranglehold' the JCBA or move it backwards...
No doubt. The problem is that your MEC and MC's strategy has been to pursue every possible advantage in the SLI. This will definitely result in a change to that strategy. They no longer have a UAL pilot group that will sit quietly and watch our careers be threatened by your MEC and MC's actions. This strategy being unveiled by the UAL MEC is one that will advance ALL of our interests.
I respectfully disagree. While I long for a unified aproach I don't see it occuring.
There are simply too many moving parts, too much buerocracy, too much ALPA policy, too many players with different agendas, too many "chiefs", too many naive reps, too many uninformed reps, too many diverging interests to make this happen right now.
I think some cooling off is in order from both MEC's.
I think some monthly joint MEC meetings will need to take place after the appropriate cooling off.
I think Lee Moak better get his head out of the sand. If this goes bad, this is likely the end of ALPA. They'll be re-naming this the "regional Airline Pilots Association." It sort of already is that thanks to John Prater.
More and more mainline jobs get outsourced to regionals and over-seas airlines and what is ALPA doing about it? That's our primary threat!! We better get unified around that pretty quick, or we all need to go out and do the ex-pat thing.