Was at the SLC LEC meeting yesterday. Pretty disgusted by the presentation given. Reps raced through slides and wanted all questions held until the end, even though they had blocked 6 hours for the meeting. Seemed like a tactic was in play - race through the slides and don't let anybody question anything until the end - and by that time people either forgot about questions they had, or had moved on to other issues, or were in a food coma from lunch, or had left already. Everything was about the rates, the rates, the rates.

The P2P fellas were moving about the room talking to folks during the presentation. I didn't think much about it then. Figured it was buddies talking (Its a pretty tight knit group of pilots here). But a part of me thinks they were moving about to try to "correct" dissenters. Pure speculation on my part here but it does speak to the point that I've lost faith in DALPA to the point that I suspect them of doing stuff like this.

It was stated that there was no other path to getting a better TA. How about this path? TA is worth $1.1B over 3 years. Stock buy back was $6B, DURING NEGOTIATIONS! Seems like there was a path there. The fear of RA was palpable in the presentation. 'Look what he did to Alaska, and Korean.' This MEC seems deathly afraid of RA and will avoid confronting management on truly significant matters. But what do I know? No fact there but that is what I suspect is going on here.

I don't understand this group out here. I hope there is a quiet majority that is as disgusted with this TA as I am. My fear is that isn't the case, at least in SLC.

I am extremely disappointed in our reps. They should not have passed this TA on to the membership. They completely abdigated their responsibility to us. There is no way this TA rose to the level of MEMRAT.

p.s. Shouldn't the FO rep actually be an FO? Especially with this TA, I want an FO rep that has to actually live with the reprucussions of voting yes to LCA trips being removed.