No. I mean how the CAL negotiators were threatening to hold their breath and delay delay delay until and unless the UAL MEC acquiesced and agreed to pay banding.

They agreed in an attempt at a goodwill gesture early in the talks to get things moving and also, to show a cohesive front. I believe it was JB who threatened to hold the talks up. This was also before it crystalized that we were actually in tripartite negotiations. Now thats a recipe for a crap contract. And this of course was long before the CAL SLI presentation and its farcical attempt to deemphasize the WB disparity and to influence the SLI. Which we all know didn't work very well.

Ten bucks says that 99 percent of the UA guys thought that agreeing to additional pay banding was a boneheaded move. We had it shoved down our throats (747/777) during the bankruptcy and were determined to UNDO that this time around. So the current pay banding scheme lies at the LCAL MEC and JH (and his negotiating teams) feet.

You are free to believe whatever you choose. I only seek to perforate your assertion that because the contract was ratified that we approved PB. The situation changed significantly between the PB agreement and the contract ratification.