You are missing the real issue here....be it fuel, APU, dry cleaning all your clothes and expensing it at training, living with the scandalous crap they call a crew meal....

It is all about the two way street and treating us like we are the problem when we apply the UPA and fighting over every cent while at the same time "training" us to save them money...money we will probably never see. The disconnect is vividly displayed daily yet here we are, case in point, arguing over HOW we can save these idiots more money. Quoting the FOM to see if we CAN save more fuel.

Profit sharing I suppose is the argument. Ask UAL guys how that worked a few of years ago when the CAL MEC Chair made a side deal with the devil and therefore the rightful UAL side $$ was reduced in order to reward the CAL side for an illegal agreement outside the T&PA. Mgmt was found to have violated the T&PA yet was not required to pay because the UAL side didn't think it wise to take back from CAL to give to UAL. The comp proposed only THAT arrangement knowing it was not palatable. DIVIDE AND CONQUER in the war waged against your own "co-workers." So who's the real adult here and who is the child. I'll make it easy....mgmt will take from you anything they can get and they have a team of lawyers to spin it any way they can. We have a group of pilots just trying to do the right thing and abide by the UPA, mgmt doesn't have the same goal as evidenced by the tons of grievances now awaiting adjudication. Sooooooo this same mgmt team sees nothing wrong with treating us like imbeciles, insulting our intelligence as they to try and squeeze out a extra dime.....fat chance. Major DISCONNECT.

I frequently ask myself, who are we competing against as an airline. The majors, of course but domestically, SW. Not how is it SW makes a profit every quarter. Must be the fleet of RJs they use, right? Maybe, just Maybe it's the fact that they include and value their workforce and not just with mere words (co-worker) but deeds. What if you had a spouse that swore he/she loved you but was out every night hooking up? Who is the idiot? Fool me once, Fool me twice! Loyalty will ALWAYS be a two way street. It is long overdue that we demand mgmt understand that too.

Final note....if the BOD is all over JS about this then isn't it a great way to get rid of JS?