Ok here is the deal. ALPA fought for 900 base pay in CLT, 700 base pay in IAD and ORD a few years ago. This grievance went all the way to the courts where a judge ruled in favor of the company and allowed Mesa to use the CRJ200 as the base pay in these stations where none were based. Now Mesa is fighting for that same 50 seat base pay for the EMB. According to some Mesa will not win this one if it goes in front of the judge because of no EMB certified for less than 70 seats. Now Mesa can get themselves into a real cluster **** if they try to keep that fence up on captains and have a 50 seat base pay and here is why. Mesa was paying that 50 seat pay for quite a while while the grievance was held up in the court process. If the judge had awarded the decision for the pilots that would have been quite alot of back pay to shell out at once. Now imagine if they try to do the same for the EMB and lose the court decision down the road. It would cause a massive displacement of pilots. Senior capt displacing EMB capt back to the CRJ some who have not upgraded before the EMB. Others going back to FO displacing EMB FO's. Plus all that back pay would also have to be awarded to the CRJ capts that could of held the EMB. Talk about training costs and displacement cost blowing the roof off the place. Mesa has done stupid **** like this several times as we have seen. I wonder if managements ego will get the best of Mesa again.