Your post indicates a serious deficit of understanding in this process. It also indicates why the East guys have to decertify. You can comb these post for and find all kinds of rationale for the East guys to roll over. "They agreed to binding arbitration", as if they had a choice; "they were in financial Hardship", as if A West wasn't;"the award will still stand", as if taking it up the wazoo without a fight is the way a man or union should operate. I haven't heard anything about the fact that the Nicolai award is a windfall and therefore against ALPA merger policy. The only person who has come close to acknowledging that fact is Doug Parker. ALPA national is self-serving. I am card carrying member and wear my alpha pin on every flight for the past ten years, but I've seen them operate. They sold the CAL pilots down the river to make sure their strike was over before the UAL strike of '85. They sold the TWA guys to AMR to get the 2000 payrates associated with expected consolidation. Braniff, Pan Am etc, ect. Once these guys leave the line and go to Herndon, they could not care less about line pilots. And unfortunately, ALPA pilots couldn't care less about ALPA pilots of a different airline. The aforementioned is why I'm all for decertification if we continue to sell each other out in current fashion. I like what they've got at AMR. The APA pilot group is, by definition, for the advancement of the APA pilot group. NO SURPRISES. I know that when it come down to it, ALPA is for ALPA, not the CAL pilot group to which I belong now.

Godspeed East. Keep fighting the way a "union" should. Your effort to rightfully trash the award may or may not happen, but like Red said about Andy Dufresne, "they never put anything down his throat.