As Col. Potter would say in regard to revisionist history, "Horse patties!"

Both MECs voted separately to accept the TA and both were required to vote "yes" for it to go out for member ratification. Since the votes were separate, the UAL MEC had ZERO ability to "out vote" the CAL MEC. A "no" vote by either side would have sent the deal back to the table before the membership at large, where UAL outnumbered CAL, could even occur.

There are numerous items in the UPA where one side acquiesced to the other to get the deal done, and for better or worse the CAL MEC owns the jumbo pay banding fiasco. Just like the UAL MEC owns certain items.

Does "the most pay for the most pilots" or "we don't care what the bands are once the SLI is complete" or "we'll delay the SLI forever without these bands" ring a bell?

The CAL MEC is guilty of demanding the ridiculous bands, while the UAL MEC is guilty of accepting them as a compromise to get the deal done--with their questionable justification that an imperfect deal was better than no deal.

And here we are....living once again the consequences of short sighted actions....