Originally Posted by
APC225
Dear Fellow Pilots:
Now, instead of enjoying the fruits of that labor and moving forward to a better life for ourselves and our families, we have throwbacks from previous administrations who think they suddenly now know how the RLA works, what the National Mediation Board (NMB) is thinking, hidden interpretations within the TPA, and how to exploit the company’s innermost secret weaknesses. Some have even purported intimate inside knowledge of the NMB and of management’s worries. Anyone who thinks this company is cowering like a scared bunny in a corner is a fool. Somehow, the power of email lists, forums and Adobe pdf is able to trump the best of expert advice that the MEC has relied upon these past months. Many of the leverage points now being raised were the leverage points relied upon during the first 18 months of these negotiations, and we are painfully aware what that strategy has gotten us – 18 months of negotiations with not one of the major sections of the JCBA completed.
Take the emotions out of your TA decision. Learn from our recent history and apply those lessons to the current environment.
We are United,
Jay Heppner
Chairman, United Master Executive Council
Air Line Pilots Association, International
Talk about talking out of both sides of your mouth and trying to have it both ways.
Heppner ... weren't you the Negotiating Committee Chair during the time that "
not one of the major sections of the JCBA completed?" Is that your fault as Nego Comm Chair or the "Previous MEC Chair's fault?
Now you are taking credit for engineering a substandard industry scope that permits 90 seat RJ's with only 76 seats to be flown by non UAL/CAL pilots? Is that your fault as MEC Chair or the "current Nego Comm Chair's fault?
Are you going to take credit for the lousy reserve system or blame that on the previous adminstration throw backs. Give me a f#$$in' break.
I'd rather not have a contract and go the way of USAIR than fly under this POS JCBA TA!