Originally Posted by
SEDPA
Uhh ... no. It's a result of what L-UAL brought to the table. The fruits of the merger that so many of you were (and still are) hungry for wasn't to be had until there was a JCBA ...
The reason that we have this contract was that Jeffy and JP were playing the two sides against each other. UCH was RAPING the UAL side and lathering any and all gains on the CAL side. The JCBA was the ONLY thing that was going to stop it. Jeffy was doing it for monetary purposes and JP was doing it for perceived ISL gains. Win one for Jeffy. JP rightfully got it inserted and broken off way up where the sun don't shine.
during the time from OMD to effective date of the JCBA, UCH managed TWO separate pilot groups under TWO separate contracts ...
See above comment on playing two sides against each other.
the CAL contract grew pilots jobs, while the UAL contract didn't ... even if UCH wanted to grow the UAL side, the L-UAL contract DIDN'T ALLOW IT ...
Complete and total fabrication. UAL had work rules, CAL did not. The spoils went to the side that was cheaper to grow AKA the L-CAL pilot group.
you can thank the MP change for the delay extracting your windfall and having to sleep in the bed you made (err living with the contract you brought to the table) ... Now back to the regularly scheduled humptity bumpity programming.
If by windfall you are alluding to the ISL then you must be completely and totally out of your ever loving mind. The L-CAL ISL proposal was quite possibly the most juvinle and ridiculous pile of greed induced wishful thinking to ever make it to an arbitration board. It was almost immediately laughed right off the table. Not even a good try, it was simply pie in the sky, without merit, logic or any chance of success.