Some of the others on here have expressed empathy for your hurt feelings and you responded that their remarks were condescending. Well, I would ask, “who cares,” unless you have a vote on the CAL MEC, your opinion is no more relevant than any of the other 10,000 pilots that have a stake in a new JCBA. A former UAL-MEC Chairman would describe you as an “angle biter” second guessing those that are actually making the decisions.

In the next few days, line pilots will make their views known to their Reps. If JH read the pilots correctly, including the CAL side, they will validate the decision seeking release. I would not want to be a CAL Rep, standing in front of a council, trying to explain why the membership should be satisfied with JP’s defense of a failed negotiating strategy, and why the CAL MEC should not want to unite with their UAL brothers to move the process, but instead, argue how they will obstruct to show those UAL’ers how powerful their MEC Chairman is.

I don’t know your friend JP, but he is certainly not acting like a labor leader that will confront management. I hope I am wrong, but like you, no one cares what I think either.

Baron