Originally Posted by
baseball
Well, I know the result, but the actual motivation for management was to break the union via Pierce to get us to throw away our scope clause. We got to keep the scope clause because the 147 allowed themselves to be sacrificed. Once management figured the MEC couldn't be bought with a 2 percent pay raise in exchange for gutting the scope clause plans were made in short order for the company to bring them back. CAL management wanted to do to CAL pilots what UAL management did to them and send the domestic flying to express jet.
My recollection is the scope relief the company asked for was international "joint venture" flying, not domestic. The 147 (148?) had no say in whether they stayed or not, but to a pilot, all of the one's I spoke with said they'd rather be furloughed than see us give up any scope. Ironically, as I recall, the merger two years later rendered CALALPAs JV scope protections moot (that's "mute" in pilot talk).