Originally Posted by Molon Labe

JC when he was at Red-Tail oversaw the closing of the Seattle base which closed down the ALPA council there. Which I might add was a council that at that time a more pro-pilot anti management council than where the pilots wound up displacing to. The net effect was their votes went to a milk-sop council which translated into a weaker MEC position than would otherwise happen. Concessionary negotiations went through more smoothly. Two years later Seattle was reopened to save the company money............Hummmmm. But base closings and furloughs will also be used to disrupt and disorient pilots in order to create an atmosphere of crisis and possibly preventable doom.......and he will say that you CAN help if you take a BIG cut now!...........Then he will give himself a bonus.