I am not suggesting anything. I am asserting as a matter of fact that ALPA knew just as the business analysts knew UAL would merge with CAL because of the logical synergies and UAL MEC wanted to insure it had the best possible leverage position it could to protect it's pilots. Every single UAL MEC rep I've ever talked to maintains this position. It is consistent, and logical, therefore believable.

When ALPA decides to favor one group over another one group will get a leg up, and the other group gets a leg down. It's the same today in government. You continually hear Mr. Obama say we've got to pay more taxes so we can give other folks a leg up. Well, where did they get that money from? It's not pixie dust. Neither wealth nor position (or energy) for that matter is simply created out of thin air, that stuff is transferred. There are two types of transference: earned and unearned. When you do it in the later, it tends to disenfranchise those that feel they paid their fair share, paid their dues, taxes, etc.

So, I do feel ALPA lied to CAL pilots early on, selling us "pixie dust" telling us how protected we would be in a merger just to get our vote in vote ALPA in. Then, once ALPA got in, they certainly protected their own. Just the dredging up of this topic churns my stomach. I was ready to let it go, but now I am getting aggravated by the folks staring through the window and pressuring ALPA some more. I wonder what else ALPA will do to throw the CAL pilots under the bus.

I went to 3 or 4 of those ALPA road shows when we were IACP. I should have video taped that stuff. Paul Rice said it best: ALPA's a big ship and it doesn't like to turn, it just goes where it wants/needs to go. Now I get what he means.