Originally Posted by
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Campbell knows there's a majority on the MEC that wants to be "constructive".
That's our stated policy. Its not news to management.
The leaks serve a purpose.
The leaks are calculated to help the MEC figure out what will pass memrat.
The leaks help the MEC figure out which of these proposed concessions the line pilots think are reasonable.
They've probably got more useful "feedback" in the last 10 days than anything the survey could tell them. Most of these rumored concessions weren't even on the survey.
I just want to make sure there's not a repeat of C2012. I want to make sure its the MEC that makes the decisions this time and not just the administration and the semi-permanent "career ALPA" guys who are always hovering around the MEC.
A week or two ago, when curiosity was rampant, the leaks were ostensibly packaged as an effort by the heroic minority to change votes, so that the evil majority wouldn't give away the farm. Since we all want to know what's happening at every turn of negotiations, we all read with interest.
Now that the hangover has passed, and maybe pilots are starting to wonder about the liabilities of leaks and rumors, suddenly it's
the MEC that's leaking so that it knows how much it can concede?
Implausible, and it makes the guys that were propagating and pushing leaks look like liars in hindsight. Either the leaks are true (and valuable), or they're lies.
I think that instead of marketing leaks and rumors one way then another the next, we should let the process be followed, and avoid leaks. I think most everyone understands that rumors and leaks offer a very short-term satisfaction, but they leave us all poorer over the long run.