Originally Posted by
OnStep
If the agreed upon amount had been reached it would have been much harder for UPS to have reneged on the MOU (my opinion).
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In the end I realize that UPS made the final decision to furlough me and the rest of the folks on the list but I believe things might have been different with someone else at the helm of the IPA.
Don't kid yourself. As far as the company was concerned, the MOU was not going to prevent furloughs. The MOU was about footing the bill for 125 DC8 crew members who were sitting at home collecting full pay and benefits.
BM tried his usual "let's make a deal" and the company laughed all the way to the bank.
The furloughs were coming, the company just was slick enough to wring $100 million out of the pilots in spite of it.