Funny thing: per the merger policy it's actually not the role of the MEC (or the MC) to "fight" for the SLI other than appointing a competent and autonomous merger committee to represent their pilots in the SLI.

It's sad that the amateurs at the top of CALAPLA actually thought that they were "fighting" for their pilots by their actions despite the fact that their economic shenanigans were all worthless as they occurred after the effective date of the merger. (Specifically, certain pay band groupings and LOA 25.)

And here we are in 2016 finally cleaning up the mess that had ZERO effect on the SLI and has caused enormous harm and disunity to the entire group.

That's what's wrong.

(We should all keep this in mind for the next inevitable (IMHO) merger.)