Are you assuming that JB and JS were in charge of the outcome of contract negotiations? I'll stake my next pay check on this: JB and JS are negotiators, but not deal makers. Those two answer to the CEO and BOD and probably to Ford and Harrison regarding amending the CBA.

Just because our negotiators have apparently been given "deal maker" status by our MEC, doesn't mean the Spirit BOD gave such status to JB and JS. I'm quite certain that they don't agree to anything that the CEO/BOD has not approved in advance.

If JB and JS were not following the CEO/BOD's direction, they would have been replaced months or years ago.

Fornaro may well send them packing, but I seriously doubt that the reason would be because they failed to give us what we want.

As far as helping out goes, we should all do our job as professionally as possible. I choose to define such as, following the procedures set forth by the company. Nowhere do I see any procedure for putting on my hat for: dispatch, scheduling, fueling, release generation, etc. Once I realized that the company is following a specific business model and what that model entailed, my level of frustration went way down. IOW, if they aren't worried about operational issues out of the cockpits control, neither do I worry about them. Besides, I have enough trouble keeping my job done, without trying to do everyone else's.