I definitely don’t trust the company.

I also don’t trust SWApA. Despite all of the rhetoric from “SWApA 2.0” (as they like to think of themselves), I consider them to be, at best, SWApA 1.01. First, SWApA has a long history of “collaborative”, and even traitorous, behavior (like, for example, this mild example starting at the 18:55 mark and ending at the 20:55 mark).

Even if we disregard all of the previous administrations, there are still key members of the SWApA old guard filling critical committee positions right now. Even if we claim that it doesn’t matter that those sorts of people are occupying key roles, SWApA 1.01:

• Settled for more than a billion dollars less than “The Platform” that the entire BOD and the current SWApA president signed their names to affirming that they would not settle for less than “The Platform”.
• A year ago, passed a MOU regarding training for the MAX without informing the pilot group.
• Operates largely and needlessly in secret. A member of our group analyzed every SWApA BOD meeting for the last several years, going back three administrations. He found that the current administration has operated in secret approximately 75% of the time, while the previous two administrations operated in secret less than half the time.
• Ramrodded the May Timeline MOU through.
• Allowed the company to violate the CBA via Hindsight and the ETO program with barely a whimper of protest. This does not bode well for any coming fight against concessions and furloughs.

Unless SWApA gets their act together and quickly, we will be made short work of by the company, it’s labor relations team (which includes a former SWApA president and a former SWApA Contract Admin manager), it’s corporate counsel, and FordHarrison. SWApA’s bluster and bravado may thrill some of the troops who don’t pay much attention, but the company sees right through it. They know there’s no bite behind the bark. Instead, they see but a little man with a trembling voice behind the curtain instead of a great and terrible wizard.