Originally Posted by rube

Ah, beautiful. The spare, yet witty cave drawings of Jon Lewis. The math challenged jarhead who once head-butted the NWA MEC Vice Chairman in a Minneapolis hotel lobby, and topped that lofty stunt by wearing an M1911A1 on his hip to the MEC's annual fish fry. Because nothing screams "ALPA Family Awareness" like open carry.

He had me at "loosing," but sealed the deal at "blah blah blah." Wow. Nailed it. Spot on. Finally, someone gets it.

All I see here is another willfully ignorant populist who will vote against anything that doesn't resemble complete surrender by management. Jon has never described a strategy that would cause this capitulation, and as usual he ignores the advice of both the negotiators he elected (and directed) and the legal experts we hired to advise us on these matters.

Jon's idiot plan has two steps:
1. Jon vote NO.
2. Jon get phone call from Ed. Ed say he sorry and want to make things better by giving Jon all his money. Jon win. Jon not feeling butt hurt any more. Jon is smart.

Classic Northwest strategy. Vote against everything, wait until we get jammed by a third party, blame it on everyone else, and get re-elected to do it again.

Boys and girls, and there are exactly TWO OUTCOMES:

They can close a TA.
-or-
The NMB can park us.

Reps like Jon are turning us into USAPA. We can go seven years without a new contract, or we can wake up, force our reps to actually do their jobs, and put the final decision in front of the pilots before the summer is over.