The JCBA process hit a major snag 2 plus years ago with the departure of CAL NC Chair Mark Adams. It hasn't been the same since. He had a strong background in financial negotiations in a previous life. He was very good.

He is and was a genuis. I believe from speaking with UAL NC folks back then that there was much respect and that the relationship was very productive. He had the company jumping pretty high when he was at the table.

He resigned because of fairly immature goings on back then. Basically, when added up there was no deal to be had, so he backed away. Now CAL MEC gives us the PBS/scheduling guy as our new MEC Chair.

This gives us a major rub. PBS doesn't honor seniority. This is due to: lack of seniority locking, methodology of absence capture, non-contractural mandate by management to assign all trips, homogonization of flight time, moving target staffing model; also non contractural and completely within the company's perogative under the management rights clause (previous 10% reserve complement in CBA 97).

So, we got the PBS facilitator, who in my mind helps the company every month by propping up PBS now negotiaitng for us. What kind of PBS monster is ahead for us.........................

Sorry, I am on a new subject now.

Forgot what we were talking about. Oh yeah, JCBA process. It's all Jeffed up.