Originally Posted by
XHooker
Joe, at the EWR roadshow the ALPA lawyer said passing the contract wouldn’t guarantee staying out of BK, but not passing C ‘05 would make BK likely. Much as we’d like to put it on IAH scabs, they were far from alone in pushing the contract. It was being pushed by our counsel from ALPAN as well.
I believe the National attorney was Ken Cooper. He was buddies with Stivila and they vacationed together too on a cruise during negotiations.
By the way it wasn’t just the scabs. Randy Newman EWR FO rep voted for and was selling that POS too. FYI don’t forget Stivila ave Muir both on NC and both NC Chairmam during that POS contract negotiation cycle. Both picked by Fred to work for him and negotiate against ALPA. Both in flight ops management today and Rick is just below Howard. After POS consessionary contract passed and Ken Cooper’s BS was exposed he retired from ALPA. He was a very weak negotiating attorney.