If you saw the ALPA Fast Read tonight, you can probably guess its about me. I want to be clear, I'm not on here posting anonymously trying to incite fear. In fact, you can see from my previous posts where I have offered to give my phone number to those who disagree with my perspective on here in an attempt to explain our sides better. I have tried to work with ALPA on this and they have continued to misguide those effected... and to prove my point I will refer you back to the email from tonight.

Paragraph 3 of the email paints a great picture of what they've done with the grievance: they filed my issue form, filed a group grievance, and then "filed an appeal to the System Board of Adjustment (arbitration)."

Here's the problem: they filed the appeal to the review board, but they haven't enforced the appeal. Section 21.D in the CBA specifically says, "The Review Board will convene January, April, July, and October...". Call your rep or the Chairman and ask if they met in October as the CBA requires. The answer is they did not, but he left that part out of the email.

Rather than being honest in an attempt to "Set the Record Straight" the Chairman only delivered half of the facts. In a 5 paragraph email, only 2 sentences were devoted to actual facts of this case--everything else was fluff and identifying me. This has been the theme from the beginning of this process: obscuring information, not answering pertinent questions, and misguiding our colleagues.

I have talked to lots of pilots effected and each one has been given different excuses from various reps. Further, I have email proof of reps obscuring what information they have in an attempt to not represent the bonus. One rep was caught saying "I don't have this document so I can't answer your questions", but then emails surfaced of him forwarding the same document internally a month earlier to colleagues.

While the Chairman did list some facts, he failed to mention all the facts, which is what I've been saying from the beginning.

It's not even about the bonus anymore. It's about holding our representatives accountable. We think of the CBA as an agreement between us and the company. But it's also an agreement between us and ALPA; we pay dues and they represent us. I apologize that the chairman had to "take time from other important work to provide the facts and set the record straight." But ask yourself, did he tell you all the facts about this?