Originally Posted by
LivintheDream
We are dealing with a guy who says that he believes we got screwed but did make much of an effort is any to stop the screw job. Now he says that he wants to be one big happy family but he still voted for Hill. There comes a time when you need to start doing the right thing instead of saying one thing and doing another.
Would you care to elaborate on just how much influence you think I, or any AA pilot for that matter, had on the bearing of our acquisition?
I just love hearing about you guys complaining that "AA pilots stood by and did nothing while we got screwed...." What, exactly, do you suggest a pilot group do during a merger? What did the AWA pilots do for the USAir guys during their "screwing?" What did the DAL guys do during the Pan Am screw job?
You talk the big talk and pretend that we had influence over the outcome. Here is a news flash for you - pilot groups have absolutely ZERO influence in the outcomes of integrations. ZERO. The only people who decide integrations are a) the M/A comittee (mergers/acquisitions) who put together the integrations, and b) a neutral arbitrator (ALPA) or judge (independent union) who rules on it. The rest of us are flying kites. Nobody votes on it. We can ***** and moan about the outcome, vote out the current union president, or MEC, or whatever - doesn't change a thing. You should know these things, but I believe you are emotionally scarred by the event and as such you let those emotions get in the way of facts. And that is completely understandable - but the truth shall set you free. And the truth is, pilot groups are at the mercy of their M/A comittees and in the end, the arbitrator and/or judge.
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