Originally Posted by
horrido27
Well Snarge, at least you have the guts to admit you voted Yes.
Guts? Your framed comment suggests that the YES voters are cowards, or at least not willing to openly discuss the vote. Whereas, I would suggest that you didn't have the guts to vote YES. You knew the JCBA would probably pass, so you got to play the hard core NO voter and now, you get to play the "I told you so" and "I had courage".....
But my post was directed at Staller (I'm assuming a Legacy United Pilot) who stated that Jay Pierce, and only he.. is responsible for the fact that we will now be seeing 70 new Large RJ's on property starting next year.
Not Hep, Not ALPA National, not the YES Voters.. one individual, Jay Pierce.
Open forum and discussion....
I Voted NO for numerous reasons.. one of them including SCOPE.
The reason why the SFO/WAS 737 base has not opened up already is because (supposedly) the UAL MC told UCH if you do that prior to SLI, the UAL pilots will be enraged over the perception/reality that the CAL guys have surely benefited much more in this merger....
Yet, you and the NO voters are missing a fundamental point...
Sure you've got reasons to vote NO.... and you've listed them in this post... and I share many of them... of course I wanted the JCBA to be better... but despite your shared eloquent and logical reasons for voting NO,
you weren't going to get better; scope, pay, retro, etc... it wasn't going to happen. Why? because you have no compelling reasons. You might be able to convince yourself, but the JNC, two MECs and 67% thought differently... yet the 33% are still the smart guys?
UCH, like USAIR was going advantage the the lower pay cost and continue to operate. After about a year, enough NO voters would be worn down and tired, ready for a deal and with a net gain of zero.. it would have passed... that is if U-ALPA and C-ALPA didn't morally collapse into Lord of the Flies....