Originally Posted by
Scoop
I am trying to figure out why the UAL MEC would extend the voting and lose the clout an overwhelmingly No vote would deliver - as it did for the DAL MEC in 2015. Did the company agree to increase the overall compensation or did they say the package would have the same value? I have heard conflicting interpretations of the UAL Mgmt letter.
As an outsider it seems that extending the vote without improving the deal is just delaying the inevitable and further raising the burden on Retro pay.
Scoop
Because Insler wants to be ALPA President and the stink of a TA failure might preclude that, so they kicked the can down the road 3 months until after the national elections in October.