Originally Posted by
Floyd
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.
Your thinly veiled and childish inference I'm a scab because of my opinion and comment is ignorant but completely typical. I saw first hand the damage and destruction United did to my family back then. You call it bias I call it fact.
Your half truth in portrayal of the management side of the financial equation in this fiasco still does not give the UAL MEC a pass. At the end of the day they were willing to bury their Frontier ALPA brothers for the gates and equipment. Of course revisionist history is easier to explain and cover the sins of the past. Again typical and talk about transference of blame.
I guess you don't remember (or have knowledge of) the infamous "code a phone" message by Ron K when the deal fell apart? At least the PEX transaction offered them jobs which is far and above what the UAL MEC ultimately had in mind.
There was no way the factions within council 33 were going to tolerate all those senior Frontier pilots on the property in Denver, let alone system wide. The entire contract parity argument was an excuse for saving face.