Originally Posted by
Lambourne
Ewr,
If you guys are not paying an assessment for the merger then my apologies. My LEC chair told me you had retained a law firm with a reputation of success in these matters. (don't remember the name of the firm) At the time he was using this as his argument for why I should vote for our own assessment. I voted NO as it is ALPA policy I was counting on to represent my interest. Why should we have to pay twice for an ALPA to ALPA merger.
Guess I should not have be surprised to have had an ALPA guy be less than truthful and attempt to use scare tactics. One trick ponies.
Again I think the success of this merger will depend on us the line pilots being able to sort through the BS. The ALPA guys are all too busy trying to secure power and position to worry about our needs. They will broker this deal that gives them individually the best political position in the aftermath. We are along for the ride. Good luck to you and to all of us.
L
To maybe explain what you were told: CALALPA started this process with money already in a merger fund (I think around $1 million). There may be a possibility that a merger assessment will be presented to the pilot group at some point for when the fund balance drops below a certain amount. This information was stated at one of our local council meetings.
So, while we have retained merger counsel, we didn't have to immediately start with an assessment to cover those costs initially. I don't see any fault with what your LEC chair told you, unless he specifically said, "CAL pilots are
already being assessed for this merger integration."