Please go back and re-read my posts. I am not criticizing the IBT leadership or EXCO leadership. I am saying that everything should be transparent and they should think about their actions and not do anything that allows anyone to have room to criticize. I have had plenty of negative questions poised to me this week about the meeting, and that’s exactly the type of thing our union leadership doesn’t need and should strive to avoid. I am saying that we shouldn’t be giving anyone, pilots or management, room make accusations by doing things that aren’t out in the open and aren’t truly totally transparent.



I never said anything bad about our EXCO. I’m not sure where you came up with that, or why you are so defensive. We should all question ourselves and our leaders, and make sure everything is above board.



When you are in leadership, you have to always think about how things look, even if your actions are admirable you have to make sure that they appear that way to the people you represent, or you can lose their support and trust. I don’t want to see that happen. I’m sure many people here have worked at other airlines where their MEC or EXCO wasn’t trusted or did something that wasn’t above board. We need to work to avoid even the perception of that here, and not give GB and his buddies any ammunition to work with, because you know that it what is going to happen.


In case you weren’t privy to it, the Kabuki dance was what MG told the judge he was doing in the past when he was pretending to negotiate and talk productively with the pilots. Our union speaks for us…through the negotiation process that is on-going and that has moved past one person meetings with MG.

Several of the people who comment, not always positively, on this forum are reps of one sort or another in case you were interested.



Peace out!