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Slats Extend
My opinion as a UAL pilot is not that Ben Salley would like to take my job, it's that UCH management would want to play the whipsaw as they are able. Whip saws go back and forth, they are not just one way.
I would not blame CAL pilots on bit in this. They have not blamed UAL pilots for the fact that 70 seat RJ's are flying over the CAL system just with UA market designator now.
Hopefully Saturday this BS will all be over one way or the other and we can try to get 11,500 pilots pulling on the same end of the rope to either a) defend and improve the JCBA going forward or, b) figure out how to bring the company to the point of improving the JCBA to make it acceptable.
Come Saturday, the time for yes or no is over. It will be time for moving forward as a group to to improve the profession.
Outstanding and accurate in the same breath. We are not here to steal anything from anyone. We are voting no on this agreement as it is sub-standard, period end of story. While I too see the reality of what the UAL Pilots are facing, this agreement is still sub-standard. Vote the way you will but don't blame us for what's occurring as there is only one real villain, and that role is being aptly played by management.
Cast your ballots but remember, we could sit here and call the LUAL guys all kinds of names for caving in and serving only their self-interests due to the perils they are facing. I chose not to do that and will honor the results, whatever they may be, come Saturday.
As Slats says above, like it or not we will possibly be a lot closer to being one Pilot group by Saturday and what direction we row from there will be more important than the results of the TA vote.