Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
Unless a large number of pilots cross the picket lines, on either UAL or CO, the company has not prepared to run the airline in a strike. If we are released, UCH will be shut down so there is, in all likelyhood, no point in management doing some of the Lorenzo or Ferris tactics. REbidding the airline or out of senoriety stuff is probably not going to happen.
As has been stated before by others, be prepared to hear spin on everything the management says. It does look, however, like they are preparing new data to take the entire ALPA group back to court for a new injunction. I woulnd't be surprised that they attempt to take away our right to strike via the judiciary.
Stay cool. Follow the rules.
Very likely. There will be no way a contract will be announced on June 15th.
Smisek's EGO will never allow the pilots to win...i.e. set a hard date for completion and have it come to fruition.
The contract could be 99.9% complete but he will play the delay game a little bit to bait the group to some sort of action then hello lawsuit. A successful lawsuit will make him feel like he asserted his power over us...he likes it and in his mind he needs to feel he won.
As always, its about power, control with ego thrown in...not about money.
As the poster above stated, stay cool...and document everything. Don't let Smisek win. In fact, I'll bet nothing would infuriate him more than an absolute perfectly run operation on the 15th and after.