I agree.

Prior to PBS in CAL's contract "02" which was adopted in 2005, never did a CAL CP or ACP call a military member about military leave. Once PBS was implemented and the staffing and reserve coverage cut to the bone, then the CAL CP's and ACP's started to harass military pilots, especially if you gave them the orders for next month during, or after the PBS run. Then, the union started to "echo" the company's sentiments about MLLV and started getting nasty with the guard/reserve guys and then the pilots stopped engaging with and talking with the military liaison committee. Heck, prior to PBS, there wasn't even a military liaison union committee. ALPA really dropped the ball on that.

I think it's better now. The new group of managers probably got the memo to play nice. As I recall with the adoption of PBS, CAL essentially attrited over 400 pilots to run the staffing model tight. No meat left on the bone. Remember the video....."not enough co-pilots."?? This video was at the height of the CAL pilot shortage. A pilot shortage that occurred because of people like Stank and his comments about the size of the Church parking lot, and becaue the military guys worked very hard that summer during the surge. PBS was the least of the military guys concerns that year.