While we were in contract negotiations for "Contract 2000," there was an alledged effort (according to the company) by individual pilots to put pressure on the company by refusing to GS, WS, and YS. According to the company, part of this alleged activity was done on the DALPA webboard. Even though there was no union sanction of this effort, the company decided to sue the union AND 49 individual pilots saying it was a violation of the Railway Labor Act because there was a change in the "status quo" while negotiations were going on. The company sued both Alpa and 49 individual pilots and won an initial injunction against the union and the individual pilots. I don't know how much they sued for but it was a substantial amount, at least to individual pilots. It was later resolved in the final contract of July 2001. This is why there is a screen that you have to "agree to" to sign on to the DALPA weboard now. It's been there ever since the injunction was issued.

This is my understanding of what went on. I was not one of the 49'ers.

Denny