Originally Posted by
Ben Salley
See TPA Exibit A
You're not actually suggesting that giving UAL Furloughees jobs at CAL was the wrong thing to do? Or that in some way the CAL Pilots should be punished for doing so?
No good deed goes unpunished...on forums
Well you are certainly twisting my words there...
I'm saying those are UAL pilots flying UAL airplanes on UAL routes. Just because its the "CAL side" those pilots came back WELL after the October 1st 2010 merger date. Management wanted to expand the 737 flying, so absent a SLI it all had to be done on the CAL side. Hence the pilots coming back.
The problem is that there never should have been TWO sides. There should have been ONE starting Oct 1st 2010.
Its really clear to all the pilots at both airlines which side got lions share of the UAL combined flying. So trying to grab onto that and claim it as "organic growth, independent of the merger" is not going to work. Its a sore spot on the UAL side because we all can see that we are being punished. Every argument that claims that its not just drives a deeper wedge between the two groups.
You are right about one thing, the SLI ship has sailed, the arbitrators have all the info, and they are going to put a list together.
We will all know in late August probably, maybe early September.