At the EWR road show the CAL negotiating rep took an aside and addressed the CAL pilots. He wanted everyone to know that they completely threw out the CAL language and used the UAL language as the baseline. He said "The CAL contract you have been working under will end when a TA passes."

He made it very clear that our new contract language was not only defensible, but proven since UAL guys aren't going to put up with the CAL shenanigans.

I know the CAL brethren out there are unhappy that CAL management is running the new airline, but they will be doing it with the UAL language and I think this is one message the MEC hasn't been successful in getting out to the CAL pilot group.

There are going to be growing pains, but "we" (the new combined pilot group) aren't going to let management do to what they did to the l-CAL pilot group because we have better language.

Remember that the improved language came with a monetary value, and its probably worth more to the CAL pilot group than any specific provision in the contract.

Please attend a roadshow with an open mind.