It doesn't matter who was or was not on the board.

This contract was negotiated in a PANIC with oil going through the roof.

That was the MEC's main sell at the time-- OHMYGODOILISGOINGTOKILLUSYOUHAVETOVOTEYES!!!!!

Times have changed. So should this contract--before we get locked into a POS for the next 4+ years.

You (or the MEC) might have the best insider information in the world. Convincing the pilot group that the MEC are acting in the pilots' best interests with that information, given various past transgressions and the current perception that the MEC and management are in bed together, is the hard part.