You mean how the UAL MEC was trying to negotiate parity pay rates for the FAL pilots but UAL mgt wanted to drag out parity til the mid 90's? Or do you mean how PEX was desperate for cash, FAL was losing $10 mil/mo, and UAL mgt had both money and motive?

Linking the UAL mec to mgt's motives produce a neat narrative for your bias. The United pilot's did not want to introduce a B scale on the property and proposed a Pan Am style integration. UAL mgt refused to budge on 6 year parity. UAL mgt's primary goals were the strengthening of it's Denver hub and reduction of low cost competition across the system. Managers rarely if ever care about the human costs and the union doesn't own the keys to the company.

It's odd how scabs always have a justification for what they did. From "ALPA caused Braniff to go under", "United screwed me in 19XX", or "that wasn't a legal strike", the excuses continue. I guess we can add another to that list.