Originally Posted by REF 5

At the time I was working a lot in the union office. So we were getting "accusations" from management about somebody doing this or that but it was very hard to prove. MEC, LEC reps and legal were the ones involved in that, I was on a committee at the time. So what was going on was pretty much heard by everybody. Like I said before their was hostage taking and their was worry to go around especially from counsel. Knowing if the company could prove any of it their was a chance that the mediator would put us on ice for six months. We were pretty much at the end of the checklist and knowing we bargained in good faith. So not much left except to ask the NMB to get released. Not knowing at the time, Gary Kelly and Bob Fornaro were knee deep in it. GK/BF timed it perfectly because we would have been released probably by the spring of 2011.