Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
That's not correct. Without the Express pilots, the vote still would have passed...barely. They did not put it "over the top" as is popularly believed.
I was an elected official at the time and remember it well.
I disagree. I think the express pilots votes were key to putting it over the edge, and over the top, and putting the union on the map. Furthermore, I feel the express pilots did allot of heavy lifting in that union and did it on the cheap. It was the express pilots who taught the CAL pilots what unity and solidarity were all about. CAL pilots only knew about those things from books. We actually had express pilots mentoring the CAL pilots in terms of what a union is and what it should be doing.