[QUOTE=CAL EWR;1296988]Today is Wednesday, November 21, 2012 and there is one item for your review.
Item One: Tentative Agreement Pro Statement
The following is a reprint of the Tentative Agreement Pro Statement published earlier today by the majority of the CAL MEC Status Representatives who voted in favor of sending the TA to the pilots for your review:
PRO Statement
Scope
While we may have deprived the company from outsourced 76 seat jets in the past, that deprivation never rewarded our pilots with the ability to fly them, nor did it afford the company an additional means necessary to generate the revenue we required of them for our increased salary and benefit demands. Industry conditions, competitors and the NMB made it more or less inevitable that scope would have to be modified, if we were to make necessary economic progress in the JCBA.
Knowing our pilots' distaste for UAX 76 seat jets, we secured industry leading provisions related to this change, that would ensure United pilot jobs would be protected.
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No one else can tell you how to vote. It is up to each individual Member In Good Standing to decide, after careful review and consideration of all available information, whether or not the Tentative Agreement is acceptable to you and your family.
Fraternally,
Capt. Jayson Baron, Council 170 Chairman
F/O Tara Cook, Council 170 Vice Chairman
F/O John Person, Council 172 Chairman
Capt. Scott Cornelison, Council 172 Vice Chairman
Capt. Bruce Bishop, Council 173 Chairman
F/O David Gourley, Council 173 Vice Chairman
Capt. Tom Howard, Council 178 Chairman
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What a crock of crap! It's not industry lerading scope! It permits the Company to fly 90 seaters configured to 76 seats.
This one too is a crock! "nor did it afford the company an additional means necessary to generate the revenue we required of them for our increased salary and benefit demands."
Why not just let everyone do our flying and get $1 for each block hour put into the UAL/CAL pilots retirement plan. This is the same line the company uses as to why they want the RJ's outsourced! Disgusting!