Originally Posted by svergin

Pre-SLI CAL hired new pilots, and as a favor, we hired furloughed UA pilots, only later to have ALPA make them senior to us. We got tricked into hiring them and would have been better off hiring new hires off the street. Those pilots pushed the rest of the UA pilots up the seniority list affecting the entire list. Some of us lost a ton of seniority because of ALPA.