Originally Posted by
Trip7
You are grossly exaggerating. (Right up there with your C2K belongs to Dubinsky comment.)
Thank John Malone and your 44 Captain reps for this contract. It was achieved in spite of your 44 FO reps efforts to derail it. They could have cost you dearly had it not been for the leadership of Captain Malone. Then to double down on their "fantastic" representation, they vote for a MEC Chair who the overwhelming majority of 44 did not want.
Time to make 44 relevant again. The FO reps must go (IMO)
You weren't here back then. UAL moved the ball bigly. Way more than the dot. It stunned the Delta MEC. I had close friends on both MECs. You're relying on "legend". Any objective student of ALPA politics and negotiations will recognize the facts align with my statements.
The contract is thanks to all the reps. The minority position often moves the majority.
The "12" did save us from more RJs. The administration was comfortable with more RJs. Ask someone who you can trust to give a straight, non-political answer. Harder to quantity the prevention of something than the gain of something.